The Bible states that the earth will "wear out as a garment" would. And that the heavens (outer space) will fold up like a garment (collapse on itself) just like many astronomers say it will do after it expands to it's limit. How did they know that years ago? I have been taught Evolution in school and I have read the entire Bible (without any religion telling me too, I have no religion to espouse here), so I have the benefit of knowing both. Do you?
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I listened to an interview between a Christian apologist and an atheist recently. His favorite argument was that the bible contained accurate prophecies. When he quoted a few the atheist demanded the verse each came from. In every case it was something almost entirely different that could only be made to mean what the christian wanted it to through a huge, huge amount of rationalization and "creative reinterperetation".
I think what he's refering to with the heavens collapsing is the "big crunch" theory, namely the theory that the universe will eventually stop expanding and collapse in upon itself. This theory was fairly popular in the 80's but more recent calculations of the cosmological constant (a wierd phenomenon often shrugged off as "dark energy") actually suggest that the universe is expanding so quickly that it will never collapse but rather continue to expand indefinitely.
Yes, yes I do. I went to Sunday school as a kid. I went to church as a young adult. I've read the Bible cover to cover several times. Also, I didn't sleep through science class so I have a pretty good grasp of evolution. Not all atheists are as uninformed as you might like to believe.
Elizabeth is not quite the raving hardcore fundie usually seen on FSTDT, but she seems to think that she is open-minded simply because she isn't as bad as they are, when in fact she's just better at social skills.
Miss Elizabeth, I fear that your interpretation of the Orange Catholic Bible is quite fallicious. The instance of the cosmos 'folding in on themselves like a garment' refers to our most advanced system of space travel: The ability to fold the very fabric of space, to travel without moving. It is for this reason that we must continue to extract the spice from the planet Arrakis. Since the Butlirian Jihad when all thinking robots were made illegal we have had to substitute the minds of men for the minds of machine. This holds true even for the Spacing Guild: Their navigators need the spice so that they may gain the perseption needed to safely fold space.
Hey, here in the Bible it says something that, taken figuratively, might look remotely similar to a misunderstood scientific theory! Praise be!
“The Bible states that the earth will "wear out as a garment" would.”
“And that the heavens (outer space)”
“will fold up like a garment (collapse on itself) just like many astronomers say it will do after it expands to it's limit.”
“How did they know that years ago?”
“I have been taught Evolution in school and I have read the entire Bible (without any religion telling me too, I have no religion to espouse here), so I have the benefit of knowing both. Do you?”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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