"law" of evolution?
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Okay I was really not wanting to get into this rabbit trail, since to me it's seems quite off topic to the general conversation...but I will give ONE example, and that's all. Because some of you seem to want to deal in absolutes like "There are no things that once had a scientific explaination, but that now have a religious explaination.
Not one." all it takes is one example to prove your statement false.
The oldest manuscripts in existence (yes from the Bible) record the earth being a sphere or "circle". What did science think at the time? Flat earth."Some Bible critics have claimed that Revelation 7:1 assumes a flat earth since the verse refers to angels standing at the “four corners” of the earth. Actually, the reference is to the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west. Similar terminology is often used today when we speak of the sun's rising and setting, even though the earth, not the sun, is doing the moving. Bible writers used the “language of appearance,” just as people always have. Without it, the intended message would be awkward at best and probably not understood clearly. [DD]
In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. [DD]
A literal translation of Job 26:10 is "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end." A spherical earth is also described in Isaiah 40:21-22 - "the circle of the earth."
Proverbs 8:27 also suggests a round earth by use of the word circle (e.g., New King James Bible and New American Standard Bible). If you are overlooking the ocean, the horizon appears as a circle. This circle on the horizon is described in Job 26:10. The circle on the face of the waters is one of the proofs that the Greeks used for a spherical earth. Yet here it is recorded in Job, ages before the Greeks discovered it. Job 26:10 indicates that where light terminates, darkness begins. This suggests day and night on a spherical globe. [JSM]
The Hebrew record is the oldest, because Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible. Historians generally [wrongly] credit the Greeks with being the first to suggest a spherical earth. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras suggested a spherical earth. [JSM]
Eratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 194 or 192 B.C.) calcuated the circumference of the earth "within 50 miles of the present estimate." [Encyclopedia Brittanica]
The Greeks also drew meridians and parallels. They identified such areas as the poles, equator, and tropics. This spherical earth concept did not prevail; the Romans drew the earth as a flat disk with oceans around it. [JSM]"
- Thank you, designbot. I grew weary of demolishing the "them ignorant christians" caricatures a long time ago.teleos
- There was no "science" at that time. Science was invented as a specific mode of thought around 1500ADTheBlueOne
- So to say "Science thought the world was flat" is just incorrect.TheBlueOne
- well what existed of science...there was still science, it just had a very different face for sure.designbot
- versus religion. which has the same basic face.spifflink
- lol blueONe. Of course there was science. Maybe not the scientific method, but the hard sciences like mathematics have been around since before we arrived. :)teleos
- around since before we arrived.teleos