[Yes, plants can survive without light for one day. However, NOTHING can survive in the temperature of space for 1 day... or even close.]
Perhaps God's presence kept it warm.
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If that were the case, why didn't the Bible mention it?
Also, it's not just the temperature of space that's a problem, there's the low pressure to contend with.
Wow. Are they talking about being burnt by solar radiation, or the -270 degrees celcius or so the coldest parts of space are at?
Physics 101. You can't freeze to death in a vacuum fuckwit!
- Firstly you'd have more pressing concerns with asphyxiation.
- Secondly, heat tranfer via conduction requires matter - some hotter than the other, and it is an energy transfer between particles. If there is no particle to transfer the energy onto, it remains with the initial particle. If you're too stupid to understand this, I suggest you ask the thermos (vacuum) flask companies how they get away with bottling God.
[devil's advocate]
Actually, though this post is pretty silly, the OP of the thread is almost equally silly. Say God creates the earth before the sun, nothing hints at the fact that this earth wouldn't be a hot rock with a temperate atmosphere. So the only problem for the plants would have been one day without light.
[/devil's advocate]
Isn't God supposed to be equally and completely present at every point in the universe all at once? You know, the standard quality called omnipresence? (I know what you're thinking and, yes, this does mean that Jesus is in your ass.)
His presence was no different then than it is now. Why isn't it warm in space now?
-Redhunter
(grins) yeah, I've always wondered if Tardigrades will be found in Martian or Lunan soil in the future, you never know.Though eventual terraforming of both worlds might make that speculation moot.
FWIW, plenty of things can survive 1 day or even a lot longer in the coldness of space. That's why NASA takes great pains to ensure that our interplanetary robots are sterile when they leave our atmosphere, so as to not contaminate other planets with earth biology.
God is defined as "light" in the bible.
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5)
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)
In Genesis 1:3 God created light on the known universe, but God was also light before he created light.
God is not an idiot, he's not going to create plants without a source of light, he didn't need to create the sun untill day 4 since he had created a light source in Gen: 1:3
Nick: You lose hardly any heat at all via radiation in comparison to convection or conduction.
Space suits require extensive cooling systems to stop sweating and fogging everything up. Insulation is there as an astronaut may come in contact with extremely hot or cold objects, as well as to provide protection against sunlight, a strong pressure kernel against the vacuum of space and and high velocity particles (micometeroids).
RichardT - God is not an idiot due to him not existing. You fulfill the existence criteria, as well as all the other benchmarks for idiocy. Congratulations!
RichardT - God is not an idiot due to him not existing. You fulfill the existence criteria, as well as all the other benchmarks for idiocy. Congratulations!
You telling me I'm an idiot does nothing to my reputation.
I said that to try to be funny/sarcastic, you didn't catch it.
[Yes, plants can survive without light for one day. However, NOTHING can survive in the temperature of space for 1 day... or even close. ]
"Perhaps God's presence kept it warm."
PROTIP: The films "Day of the Triffids" and "The Andromeda Strain" are not documentaries.
creationists attempt to science:
1: make ridiculous claim
a. get refuted right away
b. wait a few days, thunderf00t might care
2a: make a 'goddidit' not knowing the fact that this totally destroys your attempt to science
2b: never go to youtube again.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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