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To: tacticalogic
“I'm never going to get caught in the trap of trying to prove to you that Genesis is true by science. I'm just going to proclaim to you what Genesis says and let science bow its knee to that explanation.” Minister John MacArthur

This is all anyone interested in science needs to know about Creationists and their view of the Bible and science. They know it is a trap, so they are not actually interested in scientific evidence to support their position, just interested in making everyone and everything “bow its knee” to their inane Biblical interpretation.

Using this criteria how would one ever disabuse themselves of the notion that the Earth doesn't move? Obviously one who knows that the Earth does move can read Psalm 104:5 with a clearer eye to its true meaning than a literalist.

Psalm 104:5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever

68 posted on 02/19/2009 5:07:42 PM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream

Do you know the literal, Hebrew translation of that verse?


72 posted on 02/19/2009 5:10:30 PM PST by Cedric
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To: allmendream

“Psalm 104:5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever”

That is obviously a metaphor or something or other. You have to relate that to other relevant passages to understand the true meaning. You are not an expert in the Bible so you are not qualified to interpret the Bible. Oops. I didn’t mean ‘interpret’. Obviously the Bible is the literal word of God and does not need interpreting. The problem is that you are quoting a passage in English. In order to get the right meaning, you have to go back to the original Hebrew text. It takes a learned scholar to do that. So please, do not try to understand the Bible. Just go on what my Sunday School teacher tells us is fact. In case you missed sunday school, I have a few creationist websites I can link you to. BTW, they sell all kind of neat merchandise. Lots of tapes and DVD’s also!


76 posted on 02/19/2009 5:16:44 PM PST by ColdWater
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To: allmendream; Cedric; tacticalogic

==Psalm 104:5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever

If an historian recorded that America laid the foundations of the steam engine, so that it should not be moved, would you assume that the author meant that steam engines remain stationary?


136 posted on 02/19/2009 7:41:15 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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