In a message dated 2/7/2005 10:35:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> writes:
>Surely the general point is that there aint no science in the bible and that it is accommodated to the thought of the day. Hence I like all intelligent people am quite unfazed by the fact that many OT writers were flat-earthers, after all the earth looksflat from the top of Mt Sinai and the mount of
>olives !!!
>
>Michael
Just a caution:
The Bible reflects the science of their day. That doesn't mean it has no science. Some science you can expect the Bible to have has to do with rules of sociology/anthropology regarding human groups. Science that was available then and now. For example, the phrase "spewed out of the land" where ever it is found is a metaphor for a human group's extinction.
rich faussette
Received on Mon Feb 7 12:18:21 2005
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