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Author Topic:   A modern object described in ancient texts negates Creation Myth
Chiroptera
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Message 17 of 117 (112983)
06-05-2004 10:45 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Edward Teller
06-03-2004 11:34 AM


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In the Greek section of Strong's Concordance : Greek word # 975 "book" means a roll.
English word 'roll' comes from Latin 'rota' meaning wheel.
Ever go into a Vietnamese resteraunt and order a spring roll? They are scroll shaped, not wheel-shaped.
Taking a Greek word, making a simplistic translation into English, and the looking into the entymology of the English translation does not sound like sound reasoning to me. In fact this sounds like [text has been deleted as being, in the opinion of the management, highly offensive to certain segments of the readership].

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