[Hermann the Cherusker]

I know very little about bible and even less about physics. I am just curious why Lord would express himself in terms of rotation of planet Earth? It is very difficult for me to believe that the six days of creation talk about time in terms of rotation of a single planet around it's axis.

Why not? The Earth is the center of the Universe, and Man the foremost thing on Earth. The language of the Bible is that the Sun, Moon, and Stars revolve around a stationary Earth. Thus, Sun stops in its tranist across the sky for Joshua.

The second person of the Holy Trinity did not unite Himself permanently to anything but a human body, which precludes any notions of other worlds and other loci of divine attention.

The Bible is very Theocentric and Anthropocentric, because the Bible is all about the theandric person - Jesus Christ.

Either we are a bunch of electrons descended from a monkey, or we are God's pinnacle of creation.

[bluejay]

Why not? The Earth is the center of the Universe, and Man the foremost thing on Earth. The language of the Bible is that the Sun, Moon, and Stars revolve around a stationary Earth. Thus, Sun stops in its tranist across the sky for Joshua

The Man is the pinnacle of creation. As far as I know, nowhere in the Bible, does it say that Earth is the center of the Universe. Earth may be the focal point but, certainly, not a center in any geometric sense.

However, if you are talking about human perception, it does appear the Sun, Moon, stars, planets, galaxies do revolve around planet Earth. I just think that it is presumptuous for us to assume that our perception is equivalent to that of the Lord.

Either we are a bunch of electrons descended from a monkey, or we are God's pinnacle of creation.

We certainly are a bunch of electrons (as well as other particles). The Bible does say that we were made of clay. So, on some level, we do resemble monkeys - as well as all other living organisms. The Bible does mention, however, that we (not the monkeys) were made in Lord's image. Clearly it does not mean that we are physically made in the Lord's image. Traditionally the part of Man that was believed to be "made in Lord's image" was the soul. If you prefer, we can call it reason. It is, however, indisputable that, at a certain level, we are significantly different from monkeys.