1. Im certain that any who post and OP try to make their point
but also, try to anticipate what opposing posters will say, and accommodate same. But sometimes, the degree of ineptitude defies forecasting.
2. I recently contributed a thread on how amazingly farsighted the author of the first chapter of Genesis was, based on how similar the narrative is to modern sciences understanding of the origins of the universe and of life on earth
Consider these two comments from two local Mensa rejects:
a. So you're claiming that a book written 6000 years ago predicted something that happened 3 billion years ago?
I bet I can predict who wins the 1967 Superbowl.
b. And you cannot predict an order of events that *already occurred (sic),* all that you can do is speculate the order, or discover the order. That the order already occured (sic) , makes Genesis = / = prediction
So these folks are unaware that Genesis 1 is scientifically accurate- but was written long before the science was known!
3. I never imagined that some dim-wit would perceive of a book written over two millennia ago .in ancient Israel, far less than an academic environment, would picture the author of Genesis as having studied geology, biology, astrophysics .and already aware of the correct order of the events of creation .
Not only far less than marginally intelligent but .a pair of such individuals???
It seems that the USMB has its own version of Betty and Moronica.
The idea of the miraculous confluence of the first chapter of Genesis and the sequence advanced by modern science is as follows:
4. The Old Testament was written, although not compiled, almost three millennia ago. It is extraordinary that the writer of the creation account in Genesis, chapter one, got it right in his exposition of the series of events: his sequence turns out to be scientifically accurate in terms of contemporary knowledge.
5. The images in that writers mind of how our planet and life came to be must have seemed curious for the knowledge and experience of the time! Yet .he presented it as though it had been dictated to him, as though he had been spoken to by God.
6. If it is not evidence for the God, then the author of Genesis 1, or Moses, perhaps, must have understood that the universe formed first, then the seas appeared on earth, and that the first life forms were photosynthetic. Following that, he had to have realized that an eye evolved in an early animal in the geological past, which triggered the evolution of all the major groups of animals that exist today.
Still further, he must have felt that all of this occurred in the seas, before animals moved onto land, and only when they did move out of the water did mammals and birds evolve.
The above largely from chapter nine of zoologist Andrew Parkers The Genesis Enigma.
a. Wow! What an incredibly lucky guess! What a considerable stroke of good fortune!
b. Or an alternative explanation: divine intervention.
2. I recently contributed a thread on how amazingly farsighted the author of the first chapter of Genesis was, based on how similar the narrative is to modern sciences understanding of the origins of the universe and of life on earth
Consider these two comments from two local Mensa rejects:
a. So you're claiming that a book written 6000 years ago predicted something that happened 3 billion years ago?
I bet I can predict who wins the 1967 Superbowl.
b. And you cannot predict an order of events that *already occurred (sic),* all that you can do is speculate the order, or discover the order. That the order already occured (sic) , makes Genesis = / = prediction
So these folks are unaware that Genesis 1 is scientifically accurate- but was written long before the science was known!
3. I never imagined that some dim-wit would perceive of a book written over two millennia ago .in ancient Israel, far less than an academic environment, would picture the author of Genesis as having studied geology, biology, astrophysics .and already aware of the correct order of the events of creation .
Not only far less than marginally intelligent but .a pair of such individuals???
It seems that the USMB has its own version of Betty and Moronica.
The idea of the miraculous confluence of the first chapter of Genesis and the sequence advanced by modern science is as follows:
4. The Old Testament was written, although not compiled, almost three millennia ago. It is extraordinary that the writer of the creation account in Genesis, chapter one, got it right in his exposition of the series of events: his sequence turns out to be scientifically accurate in terms of contemporary knowledge.
5. The images in that writers mind of how our planet and life came to be must have seemed curious for the knowledge and experience of the time! Yet .he presented it as though it had been dictated to him, as though he had been spoken to by God.
6. If it is not evidence for the God, then the author of Genesis 1, or Moses, perhaps, must have understood that the universe formed first, then the seas appeared on earth, and that the first life forms were photosynthetic. Following that, he had to have realized that an eye evolved in an early animal in the geological past, which triggered the evolution of all the major groups of animals that exist today.
Still further, he must have felt that all of this occurred in the seas, before animals moved onto land, and only when they did move out of the water did mammals and birds evolve.
The above largely from chapter nine of zoologist Andrew Parkers The Genesis Enigma.
a. Wow! What an incredibly lucky guess! What a considerable stroke of good fortune!
b. Or an alternative explanation: divine intervention.
