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To: snarks_when_bored
In fact, the creation story in Genesis looks nothing like Big Bang cosmology—no matter how you spin it.

True; different order, etc.

In the Bible, the universe is a firmament and Earth is fixed and immovable (not to mention flat). In reality, the universe is expanding and Earth rotates about the sun.

Come now, that's a bit ridiculous. Genesis clearly uses "observational" language, describing things from the perspective of a person on earth. Does the writer really refuse, in everyday language, to refer to the sky as "up" or the ground as "down"? Does he refuse to use the terms "sunrise" and "sunset"?

In the Bible, Earth is created in the first “day,” before the sun, moon, and stars. In reality, Earth did not form until nine billion years after the Big Bang and after the sun and many other stars.

Talk about using your conclusion to prove itself...

11 posted on 02/01/2005 7:16:29 AM PST by xjcsa (Everything matters if anything matters at all...)
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To: xjcsa
Actually, it's a very strange assertion to say that the cosmology of Genesis looks nothing like the Big Bang.

SS. Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom's readings of Genesis look an awful lot like Big Bang cosmology and even evolutionary biology (!!!).

You might find the following link interesting: The Six Dawns by Alexander Kalomiros (translated from the Greek by George Gabriel)

19 posted on 02/02/2005 1:02:00 PM PST by The_Reader_David
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