And here we come to the crux of why creationism is intellectual suicide. Do you think science and observed reality should give way in order to line up with your interpretation of scripture, or do you think your interpretation of scripture should give way to reality observed through replicable science?
Once you have got it into your head that your interpretation is “God's word” or “God's teaching” and that science is only “man's word” or “man's teaching” then what recourse do you have to change a dogma that is obviously in error, like the Earth not moving and the Sun being in orbit around it?
Our Geocentric Freepers insist that all Bible believing Christians are Geocentrists, and that only by putting ‘man's teachings’ above ‘God's word’ would one insist that the Earth is in orbit around the Sun.
Obviously the majority of the Christian world allowed replicable observational science to influence their notion of the immovability of the Earth, and yet the Bible says “And HE set the foundations of the Earth, so that it should not be moved forever.”
Perhaps the most simplistic explanation of Scripture, understandable by babies, is not always the correct one.
And here we come to the crux of why creationism is intellectual suicide. Do you think science and observed reality should give way in order to line up with your interpretation of scripture, or do you think your interpretation of scripture should give way to reality observed through replicable science?
Have you considered reading
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Genesis and the Big Bang:
The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible
by Gerald Schroeder
Seems to me that the scientists of the day determined that the sun rotated around the earth...
Eventually they revised their theory to line up with Scripture...
It's only intellectual suicide if someone were to take a completely literalist word for word reading of entire Bible, which no one in the world does.
You have been told that time and again, and you choose to ignore it time and again and continue to paint anyone who takes God at His Word instead of taking the word of subjective, for the most part, secular, spiritually dead men, in that light.
YOU do not have a corner on the market of how to interpret the Bible either, you know. What makes you so special that you think you can demand certain definitions of words and certain frames of reference by which Scripture must be interpreted, lump them into one category, and to then pass judgment on the intellectual capabilities of those who disagree with you?