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To: jennyp
"The main change caused by the Copernican Revolution was the acceptance of the belief that "science" had disproved the Bible. And, if the Bible could be wrong about the earth not moving, it could be wrong on other aspects of the creation, on Noah's Flood, the Virgin Birth, Heaven...anything! "

Only one problem. The Bible never said that and therefore wasn't wrong. That was the Roman Catholic priesthood that in their arrogance didn't check to make sure that what they were teaching matched the scriptures.

Even Galileo believed and argued that the scriptures were inherently correct, only the interpretation of them was subject to error.

288 posted on 02/04/2004 2:51:09 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
... only the interpretation of them was subject to error.

[Gasp!] Interpretation? Oh, the horror!

This stuff looks rather straightforward to me:

Ecclesiastes:
1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. [Clear, unambiguous description of the sun's orbit around the earth.]

Joshua:
10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.

1st Chronicles:
16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

Psalms:
93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be re-moved for ever.


289 posted on 02/04/2004 4:35:27 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Theory: a comprehensible, falsifiable, cause-and-effect explanation of verifiable facts.)
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To: DannyTN
Only one problem. The Bible never said that and therefore wasn't wrong. That was the Roman Catholic priesthood that in their arrogance didn't check to make sure that what they were teaching matched the scriptures.

Only problem with your position is that you can't determine what the Bible really means until you have an outside verification of the facts. No one saw any problem with an earth centered cosmology until an alternative became indisputable.

In another eyeblink (200 years or so) evolution will have the same factual support as Copernican cosmology, and the scriptures will be interpreted accordingly.

302 posted on 02/05/2004 8:29:29 AM PST by js1138
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