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To: stremba
I'm sorry, but it still seems that if the earth is moving that the foundations of the earth are being removed.

Sorry, but are you saying that "If God created... the earths foundation must be fixed positionally"? There are other verses that used to be used, that talked about the sun following its circuit through the heavens. Which we were told is obvious that the bible is incorrect scientifically, since we know that the sun doesn't travel around the earth. Of course the bible never said that, and we now know that we are in a spiral Galaxy, and the sun makes its circuit once every 25,000 years or so.

43 posted on 02/15/2005 7:32:44 AM PST by D Rider
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To: D Rider

My point is that the Bible cannot be 100% literally true unless relativity is also false. The Bible says that the sun moves Relativity says that it's equally correct to say that the sun doesn't move. Any Biblical reference to motion of the earth or other astronomical bodies serves to designate a preferred reference frame. Relativity says that there's no such thing as a preferred reference frame. Why then don't Biblical literalists fight against relativity in the same way that they do against evolution?


45 posted on 02/15/2005 7:46:49 AM PST by stremba
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