James Guinee wrote:
> One day I’d be curious to hear from the atheists on their personal theories
> of how everything came to be. If not God, then what?
It must be Monday.
As an atheist, I don't know what! But, I'm not willing to make up an answer or,
worse yet, be content with a fable that I happened to hear because I was born in a
society where it exists.
On the other hand, there would seem to be more evidence for the Big Bang than the
Big Shazam.
> By the way, did you know that in the book of Isaiah he describes God as
> sitting above the circle that is the earth? Can you imagine this religious nut
> teaching something like that? He claimed his knowledge came from God.
> Now we all know that in 500BC the world was flat...
Circle flat. Sphere not flat.
For a discussion of this and other tract-crap, check out this link:
http://www.skepticfriends.org/dawnflatearth.asp
I have reproduced the section relevant to Isaiah's vision here.
'Fundamentalists love to quote the first part of (Isaiah 40:22
where it reads, "He sits enthroned above the circle of the
earth. . ." as proof that the Bible advocates a spherical
earth. The full verse, however, reads as follows:
"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches
out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them
out like a tent to live in."
Isaiah is actually describing the earth as flat and circular,
with a dome-shaped tent (sky) covering the land.'
As for relevance to teaching, students often argue that science can't be applied to
humans as readily as it can to other creatures. Not simply because humans are more
complex, but because the complexity ultimately comes from the Creator--so we better
turn to His word (i.e., the Bible) for knowledge. As this example illustrates,
they typically don't know what it actually says. (Can anyone find, "Spare the rod,
spoil the child?" Translations of the Bible from last week don't count.)
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