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To: Verginius Rufus
When Copernicus's theory of the solar system was published, many Christians rejected it as contrary to the Bible. Nowadays just about everyone accepts that Copernicus was right to say that the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, despite some verses in the Bible that suggest otherwise.

There actually wasn't much religious objection to it. Staunch Christian resistance to cosmological theories has been greatly exaggerated in modern times.

60 posted on 11/24/2014 2:24:09 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Staunch Christian resistance to cosmological theories has been greatly exaggerated in modern times.

Science has given us the Big Bang; the Bible gave us, "Let there be light"

Science gave the universe all the inorganic material there is.

Magic evidently gave us the ORGANIC material that LIFE needed to be created from.

257 posted on 11/25/2014 12:19:44 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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