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Author Topic:   Secularly Verifiable Evidence for Biblical Inerrancy
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Message 16 of 99 (152143)
10-22-2004 9:47 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by SirPimpsalot
10-21-2004 7:59 AM


Re: The Science of the Bible
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There are many instances in the Bible where scientific fact is spoken before science discovered them to be fact.......for instance, the first thing God created was light. The Bible makes it clear that when God said "Let there be light", he was not speaking of the sun or moon or any luminous body. It's now known to be scientific fact that light is what governs the flow of spacetime and that the first thing that existed after the Big Bang, from an anthropological point of view, was light.
What do you mean it "governs the flow" of spacetime?In what way does spacetime flow?Also what are you defining as light in this instance?

[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together

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Message 24 of 99 (152223)
10-23-2004 8:44 AM
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10-23-2004 7:43 AM


Re: The Science of the Bible
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In physics light refers to any wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. As applying the normal idea of light to mean that part of the EM spectrum that we can percieve then light was not immediately viewable in the initial stages of the universe but some 400,000 years after the big bang.
Light can be be forced to take a curved path in the presence of a large gravitational field but it does not dictate the shaping of spacetime but relays information about spacetime.

[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together

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Message 79 of 99 (152422)
10-23-2004 7:15 PM
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10-23-2004 10:31 AM


Re: The Science of the Bible
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I don't see how this detracts from my argument
It goes to the item you pointed out in the first post
There are many instances in the Bible where scientific fact is spoken before science discovered them to be fact.......for instance, the first thing God created was light.
How is it scientific to say the first thing your god created was light when,except as far as visible light goes,this is not the case at all? And,as far as visible light goes,the first organisms present on earth could not likely have been aware of its presence.

[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together

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Message 82 of 99 (152425)
10-23-2004 7:23 PM
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10-23-2004 7:18 PM


Re: The Science of the Bible
That's what I get for working on the weekend.Oh well,I suppose he was warned that he could not get away with that and I do believe he made bet that he could.Kids these days.

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