First off, the story of Genesis is Sumerian, and only modified by Moses. There
is no reason to suspect that the story is anything other than a bad
explanation to fill the need to know. It's nice to take the metaphors in any
writing and expand them to fit whatever state you are interested in, but until
very recently, it would be heracy to consider the options for the metaphors
that Christianity and other religions have adopted to fit modern cosmology. My
question to anyone who would believe is: Why even try to reconcile religion
whith the physical universe - the religios argument looses a little more
ground everytime it tries. Why don't believers just come out and say - "I
believe because I choose to believe, and it has nothing to do with being
rational - It is my free choice"
Thats all that needs to be said for any of us to understand the reasoning.
Attempts to make religious writings fit physical reality only damage the
credibility of religion.
Sodom
Bill Roh
Tracy Yucikas wrote:
> -Andreas Engstrom
> (Great Randomness) wrote:
>
> >If one is going to correct someone, one should make darn sure
> >one's correction actually is correct..
>
> ok, I made a mistake ... late at night .. working from memory and not
> a book in hard-copy ... ... I'll still stand by my observation, even if
> not PRECISELY King-James verbatim ... I can't read Hebrew ... and have
> reservations about the language's ability to conveniently express concepts
> of space, time and cosmos-formation via the mechanism of oral tradition.
>
> I recall having thoughts of "without form and void" as an astronomer
> posed the outcome of taking the inverse of Hubble's Constant and watching
> the Cosmos' behaviour (as an "outside observer" ) as the time vector
> approached zero from "above". hmmmmm, dunno if Einstein ever did
> THAT "thought-experiment", but it's not without merit.
>
> However Andreas, as you rightly state, I kinda blew it ... as I kindaa
> realized a few minutes after sending ... oooops, mea culpa ;
> sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused.
>
> ty,
> Counselor, Renaissance home for non-verbal memes