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Ancient texts in discussions of science?

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10-07-2006 11:31 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Woodsy
10-07-2006 10:48 AM

The bible, and other ancient texts, provide evidence that the earth has been in stable orbit for a long time. That supports the idea that gravitation fields are conservative, and is part of the background that supports the principle of conservation of energy.
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Sure, this is informal background support for scientific theories, rather than formal explicit data. However, for a lot of our science, the informal background support can be quite substantial.
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10-07-2006 12:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by iceage
10-07-2006 12:19 PM

Re: Ancients and orbiting.
The bible, and other ancient texts, provide evidence that the earth has been in stable orbit for a long time.
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The bible in particular implies that the earth is the center of the universe. It says nothing about orbiting and certaintly nothing about "for a long time".
Ignore what the bible says about astronomy (or about creation). The bible describes people living in a climate not too different from what we see today for that part of the world. It mentions plants and animals not too different from what we would see today. This is good evidence that the earth, at the time those ancient texts were written, was in essentially the same orbit then that it is in now.
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