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To: Natural Law
"I can think of dozens of examples where the Bible states that the sun rose or the sun set or the moon and the planets rose or set. We all know, unless you are also heliocentric, that they didn't actually rise or set, they only appeared to based upon an incorrect understanding of the relationships between the bodies."

Dude, you should stop before you embarrass yourself even more. Your 'we all know' is heliocentrism or, more correctly, geokineticism. You aren't arguing *against* heliocentrism, you are arguing in favor of it. Never mind that geocentrism is equivalent to geokineticism under GR as attested by Einstein, Hoyle, Born and Ellis. You aren't even close to having a clue on this one.

"This outwardly represents examples of logical fallacies. However, with scientific knowledge not available at the time, and in the context of understanding what was meant, not what was literally stated, we accept the scripture."

Pardon me for pointing out that the scientific knowledge of today can't prove heliocentrism true and geocentrism false either. The Scripture is still geocentric and nothing proves reality otherwise.

"How is Theistic Evolution any different?"

It's not. You just choose to believe a fallacy proposed by men over the Scriptures. If you are comfortable with that, then go with it.

I'm just making sure that you understand that you have not chosen an empirical position wrt either evolution or heliocentrism. The word of man is still a lie and the Word of God is still true.

80 posted on 09/25/2009 12:28:31 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

Nice point about General Relativity! But you needn’t even take it that far, even under Newton’s laws of gravitation, it’s clear that the Earth doesn’t just orbit the Sun, but they in fact orbit each other. Therefore, strict heliocentrism or strict geocentrism are either equally wrong, or equally right, depending on your perspective :)


83 posted on 09/25/2009 12:45:56 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GourmetDan

Wow, I didn’t think there was anybody left who truly believed in geocentrism, and certainly not on this board. Is the Earth flat, too?


97 posted on 09/25/2009 3:07:08 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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