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To: TXnMA; tet68; Elsie
There are no galaxies in the Bible, either. But, if there were, how many could Moses have seen?

As a naked-eye obsever of the cosmos, I can proudly answer that.

One. The Andromeda galaxy. If Moses could see the Pleiades, a well-known asterism in Taurus (the Bull: remember his brother Aaron make a golden calf and there's a really good astronomical/zodiacal reason for the selection but you'll have to figure that one out yourselves, hehheh), he could have most likely seen Andromeda with his naked-eye.

73 posted on 04/13/2011 7:32:09 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Zuben Elgenubi; Alamo-Girl; betty boop
"As a naked-eye obsever of the cosmos, I can proudly answer that.

One. The Andromeda galaxy."

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Spotting M31 with my unaided eye is my personal measure of a night with "good seeing" worthy of dragging out the telescope.

You're right: M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) could have been seen by Moses.

But you're also wrong: he could have seen two galaxies:

Moses (like you) also certainly could have seen the Milky Way -- our own galaxy -- "from the inside looking out"...

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The point of my question was, "Even having seen those two galaxies, could he have recognized them (and written about them) for what they are: millions of stars bound into huge spiral structures by gravity (at vast distances from Earth)? No.

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The same holds true for Bishop Ussher: he had no concept of the universe as we (using tools we have made with our God-given talents) now do.

They could get by with writing, reading, and interpreting "Begats" to derive their (mis)interpretation of the age of the Universe. We have no such excuse...

74 posted on 04/13/2011 8:32:09 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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