| ROFLMAO said: Christians thinking their silly little storybook is fact when it was written by people who had absolutely no concept of science makes me giggle. |
Your post made me laugh at how people just parrot what they heard and not do any research for them-selves. While it is true that the Bible isn't a scienctific textbook, and wasn't meant to be. Where it does touch on science it is very accurate, even to the point where it stood at odds with the best scientific minds of the time it was written.
A few examples:
Cleaniness and santary laws of the Mosaic Law covenent where out of step with the popular advanced medical science of Egypt. Where Egypt used feeces and urine in their salves and oinments. The Mosaic law required that such things should be done outside of the living area and a ditch should be dug and such items buried, and if a person came into contact with such things the where to bath and be corentined to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
In the book of Job, written by Moses, stated that the Earth is suspended in space on nothing. (Job 26:7)
The bible writter Ishiah said that the earth was a circle(globe, the Hebrew/Aramaic word used here can be translated either circle or globe) And the two above where written in a time where the prevelent view was the Earth was a flat sheet set up something, set up a turtle swimming in an ocean. (Isa 40:22)
The Bible writter Solomon poetically discribed the water cycle. (Ecc 1:7)
The creation account as it is written in the Bible is extrememly accuarate form a view point of a person standing on the Earth. Which explains the sepration of the appearence of light and the appearence of the sun and moon. The cloud cover would first let in light then as the cloud cover lessened over millions of year. The problem with the account comes from those who don't know how the acount was written and insist on a literal 24-hour periods. Where the word translated day, has the meaning of an era or period of time. There was a seprate word used for the 24-hour day.
The same account is supported by the fossile evidence on when certin classifications of spieces appeared on the planet.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2005241
The above is an article on this subject.
