One should also criticise Darwin for not accepting genes and DNA.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: <PHSEELY@aol.com>
Cc: <allenroy@peoplepc.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Glenn makes front page of AiG today
> PHSEELY@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Allen wrote,
> > ............................................................
> > < It clearly says the sun is moving around the earth.
> > Nowhere does the Bible say or infer that the earth is moving rather than
the
> > sun. Indeed, as Luther pointed out, the world (the earth upon which man
> > dwells) is fixed and cannot be moved (Psa 93:1; 96:10).
> >
> > If "sound Biblical thinking" means that scientifically acquired data is
> > interpreted within the Biblical paradigm, then you must join Luther in
> > rejecting Copernicanism.
>
> Paul -
> Of course your basic argument is correct but can we finally give
Luther a
> break on this? He certainly thought the sun went around the earth but so
did
> virtually everyone else in the mid-16th century. It's hardly fair to pick
out an
> after-dinner remark that a student remembered him as saying several years
later &
> use it to represent him as dogmatically anti-Copernican. Donald Kobe's
article,
> "Copernicus and Martin Luther: an encounter between science and religion"
in
> _American Journal of Physics_ 66 (3), March 1998, 190--196, is worth
consulting in
> this regard.
>
> Shalom,
>
> George
>
> George L. Murphy
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
> "The Science-Theology Interface"
>
>
>
>
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