Now I answered your question, here is one for you:
How did Moses know that by dividing a constant existence into seven equal parts (days) that it would accurately split the earth's revolution around the sun and keep the seasons in order for the next 6,000 years?
I'll help you out; it wasn't by the sun because the sun doesn't rise and set at the same time each day, week, year.
What was his measuring rod? I contend that the one who CREATED the earth gave Moses the information which is what Moses claimed. So how do YOU say Moses divided existence into 7-day weeks? After all, ALL astronomy emanates from that INITIAL fact. without it you CAN'T study stars and thus the universe.
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"[How old is the Earth again Cory?] I BELIEVE that it is roughly 6,000 years. How old are you WD?What does that have to do with the question?
You believe THEORIES of creation. No single scientist will tell you ANYTHING about the origins of earth beyond the fact that they have THEORIZED...
That's because we don't have a time machine to actually see it, but it is derived from what we see from other planetary disks and inferred evidence on earth.
Even carbon-dating machines are based upon THEORIES about the dates of artifacts. No science will tell you any FACTS about the origins of earth or the age of the earth.
Over-generalization. You lose.
Now I answered your question, here is one for you: How did Moses know that by dividing a constant existence into seven equal parts (days) that it would accurately split the earth's revolution around the sun and keep the seasons in order for the next 6,000 years?
What?
I'll help you out; it wasn't by the sun because the sun doesn't rise and set at the same time each day, week, year. What was his measuring rod? I contend that the one who CREATED the earth gave Moses the information which is what Moses claimed.
But your assumption falls apart as there is no evidence for a moses other than the bible.
So how do YOU say Moses divided existence into 7-day weeks? After all, ALL astronomy emanates from that INITIAL fact. without it you CAN'T study stars and thus the universe."
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Stop making stuff up and go look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year .
Not only does dividing the year into weeks not divide the year exactly, but the length of a year changes over time and we have all kinds of corrections for it not being completely accurate (That's why we have leap years every four, but skip a leap year every 400).
To be honest I didn't know why there are 7 days in a week so I did a little bit of internet research (Wikipedia) and a couple of Google searches.
The seasons weren't kept in order until the development of the leap year; and even then, a further adjustment had to be made which resulted in days being deleted from the calendar to resynchronize the calendar with the seasons. That's why Eastern Orthodox have a different Christmas than western Christians - they declined to make the adjustment to the church calendar.
So if God made the week, why didn't the older civilizations use it consistently? The Egyptians only developed their calendar haphazardly, and even then their seasons kept slipping -- the star Sirius made a complete rotation around the calendar every 1,460 years (apparently).
Okay, since when is Moses credited with discovering the 7-day week? Why do you assume that other planets, which revolve at different speeds, still operate on a 7-day week? And why are you asking me how I think Moses divided existence into 7-day weeks, when I think you're just another ignorant fundie with no grasp of 6th Grade science?
Completely missing the point that a year is actually 365 days and about 6 hours or so long. Which is why every 4 years we have to add a day to February to avoid the seasons drifitng a day. If we didn't do this, and the speed of the Earth around the sun were an absolute constant (which of course it isn't, owing to those pesky laws of physics), over the last 6000 years, the seasons would have wrapped around the year more than 4 times so far,
Yeah, cause those wacky seasons were just all over the place before Moses came along and imposed a 7 day week to keep them orderly. It must've been tough, spring planting for two weeks, three days of winter, then a month of scorching summer, another week of winter, then fall, and spring again... man, how did they keep up with the seasonal fashions at Macy's back then?
rlrr beat me in.
people, the fundie is not refering to a seven day week, but to the bible quote that a thousand years is like a day to god. then the fundie assumes that about 6000 years passed since creation, and that god will start the "1000-year end times" soon for the "seventh day."
You guys are funny. As if I am the first person to have an error in reasoning. You guys should compile your thoughts and ideas openly as I have and see how many contradictions and errors you find. You might be surprised depending on how arrogant you are. Funny, only one person here took the time to note that I acknowledged the error of my reasoning openly. www.coreybuckner.com and www.alltogod.org
So now you can stop the prejudice (pre-judgments) about me that have been exhibited here. Here's my closing statement: Get to know me before you judge me, get to know God before you judge God.
CB
The world will continue to go through seasonal changes and the planets will orbit their stars exactly the same no matter how many days we have in a week. A week is an arbitrary social collection of days, which corresponds to exactly ZERO natural functions of the cosmos. And I am all the dumber for having read this post.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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