"In case the notion has escaped you, the biblical texts were written for an audience that resides on planet Earth, for whom the sun will, unless one is stationed in outer space, always rise and set."
Oh, not so, Mr./Ms. Chugabrew. The heliocentric solar system was discovered long, long before humans were in space. It's a pretty easy thing to infer.
The O.T. biblical texts were written for a bunch of nomadic bronze-age shepherds or goatherds. You are correct that the explanations are unscientific. Science was far in the future. That is why the Bible is useless as a guide to the scientific explanations of natural phenomena.
Any attempt to subvert science by introducing 3000 year old texts transcribed from stories told around the campfire is simply dumb-headed. The Bible is not science. The Bible is a religious text...a mixture of historical fact and fable. It's useful as a religious text, obviously, since the followers of it are the largest group on the planet. It is still not a science text. The Genesis chapters on cosmology are useless, scientifically.
You're welcome to believe them. You're not welcome to try to foist those fables off on children.
Thank you for your attention.
Sure. But it has never been self-evident, and it never will be until the human population is transported to that point of view from which the earth can be seen to orbit the sun. Furthermore, the heliocentric understanding of the solar system did not precede authorship of the biblical texts.
The O.T. biblical texts were written for a bunch of nomadic bronze-age shepherds or goatherds.
Gee. I guess we all better stop reading them. I repeat, they were written for an audience that experienced at the time, and an audience that still experiences on a daily basis, a sun that rises and sets. Or are you one of those people who, when the sun rises, says, "Look! An illusion created by the rotation of the earth!" Cut me a break.
At what point did the breeding of animals and manufacture of bronze become "scientific?" Was it as soon as any notion of God or intelligent design was left out of the picture?