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To: dr_lew
Look at Genesis I:11-12 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, ... , And the earth brought forth grass, ..." It seems quite simple.

So, you believe the earth sits atop some structure and that the sun moves around the earth. When literally interpreting scripture, you cannot pick and choose

Psa 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

26 posted on 03/18/2012 7:58:03 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

When “literally” interpreting scripture, one does nothing but pick and choose among ones own preconeptions, looking for something that isn’t there.

The whole idea of an Intelligent Designer is a modern preconception, piously meant, I’m sure, but entirely absent from a plain reading of Genesis.

The formula, “Let the earth bring forth” is repeated wrt the animals, but in that case it is added, “And God made the beast of the earth ...” where this is not said of the grass and other plants. Isn’t this an indication of the lesser status of plants? Doesn’t this distinction fall afoul of our modern conception of the unity of DNA based life forms?


42 posted on 03/18/2012 9:52:51 PM PDT by dr_lew
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