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Inerrancy of the Bible 2

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Coragyps
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01-26-2005 5:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 95 by johnfolton
01-26-2005 5:00 PM

From the sermon you linked, Tom:
When the Pleiades become more visible, it is obvious to the ones who know the stars and know the bright cluster of stars that springtime is coming soon. Orion is a constellation that announces the coming of winter.
This preacher has never been a stargazer, huh? If the Pleiades announce Spring, Orion announces late Spring. It's about a month behind the Pleiades, no matter what sort of appirition you're talking about.
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The guy needs a fact-checker...or just a planisphere.
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Coragyps
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01-26-2005 8:34 PM 		Reply to: Message 99 by johnfolton
01-26-2005 7:44 PM

What is the ultimate cause of the rotation of this vast globe, we know no more than the ancients knew what caused the heavens to rotate;
Conservation of angular momentum?
we know no more than the ancients knew why the sun appeared to move among the stars.
More conservation of angular momentum?
Orion has never come without the Pleiades being around the corner.
But it's observationally just the other way around. The Pleiades come out of the dawn a month before Orion. Whether any of the ancients actually mixed evening and morning appearances and risings as this quote suggests, I truly don't know. But I've never seen it mentioned in 40+ years of amateur astronomy.
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Coragyps
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01-26-2005 11:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 107 by johnfolton
01-26-2005 11:10 PM

The Orion open star cluster is loose and disintegrating
Well, that, and it never was all a cluster, in any case. The two brightest stars there are just along that line of sight, and most of the other naked-eye stars are in four different clusters, not one. But other than all those messy facts, yeah, sure. If I ever get leprosy, I'll be sure to trust the Bible and kill a pigeon over a bowl of water, too.
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