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To: chuck_the_tv_out
I would be really interested what you think, because my theory is that you want to fit the Bible around science that you believe is proved.

Sorry, but your theory is wrong. I believe that all truth is God's truth and that God has not lied to us through his creation. I do not wrap the Bible around science nor do I wrap science around the Bible. There is no conflict between science and the Bible.

I hate to link to Wikipedia, but the entry for Galileo does a good job of showing how Christians of the time wrongly believed that the Galileo's observations contradicted the Bible:

From antiquity, the majority of people subscribed to the Ptolemaic theory of geocentrism that the earth was the center of the universe and that all heavenly bodies revolved around the earth. This theory accorded with available scientific knowledge at the time, agreed with a literal interpretation of scripture in several places, such as 1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, Psalm 104:5, and Ecclesiastes 1:5. Further, since in the Incarnation the Son of God had descended to the earth and become man, it seemed fitting that the earth be the center around which all other celestial bodies moved. Heliocentrism, the theory that the earth revolved around the sun, contradicted both geocentrism and the prevailing theological support of the theory.

The Young-Earthers of today are the spiritual descendants of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth.


138 posted on 02/16/2009 2:28:26 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike
terrible. reply. you ignored my question which was asked twice. you say that you believe it was a local flood that killed all people, because all people lived in that small region.

I called you on it, asking you to confirm if you think all eskimos/aborigines etc etc came from Noah, you ignored it twice, because you obviously DON'T really believe what you said, it's only about bending the Bible to meet science to you

Then your most recent post, which simply attempts guilt by association.

http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=1+Chronicles+16:30 http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=Psalm+93:1 http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=Psalm+96:10 http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=Psalm+104:5 http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=Ecclesiastes+1:5

NONE of those verses support the Ptolemaic (egyptian occultist) view anyway. We still talk about the "sun rising".
139 posted on 02/16/2009 2:45:06 PM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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