2006-10-07 13:08:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I was referring to the line in the Bible... by the way
2006-10-07 13:13:02 · update #1
Actually, the answer about the "stone-age goatherds" is correct. The creation myth in Genesis (and in fact all of what we call "the bible") was written in a culture in which virtually everyone believed in what is called the Three-Story Universe: a layer cake with the Underworld, or Hades under the ground, our World (the Cosmos) in the middle, and the Heavens above the Firmament, overhead.
And 99.9 percent of all people in biblical times lived their entire life (avg 28 years) within about 8 miles of the place where they were born.
The Cosmos, or middle layer, was the only world they ever imagined. The Hebrew people of the Old Testament rejected the science of ancient Babylon, Persia, and Egypt because they wanted a world view that made their god the one true god and them the most important people in the world.
So they willfully rejected knowledge of the Solar System that already was known, and lots of other knowledge. Worse than an "oversight." Willful ignorance.
2006-10-07 16:37:02 · answer #1 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Bible is a Sacred Book that teaches humanity morals and spiritualism, your relation with God and your relation with your fellow brothers and sisters. It is not a historial account of scientific events. Do not look for disparities between the Bible and Science. You will be wasting your time and waisting your gift. Life outside our Solar System is a statistical certainty. Or are you so selfish to think that we are the only ones alive in the Universe? I think God is not selfish, and the Universe to big for us being so privileged. Look at pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and you will see what I mean.
2006-10-07 13:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by jorge f 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's no mention in the Bible of a great many truths about the universe and nature's laws that an omniscient God would have known, even if humans, at that time, did not. How strange. It's almost as if humans wrote fake scriptures and attributed the work of their own hands to an imaginary deity!
2006-10-07 16:31:50 · answer #3 · answered by David S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You talk over with our entire concept of creation, yet i think of that maximum scientists are open to many diverse suggestions. some religions furnish a concept device which could run counter to this. existence originating from outdoors the Earth is quite available that has been taken care of as a severe concept by many astronomers and biologists interior the previous. perhaps no longer "clever" or "surprisingly more suitable" existence yet probably micro organism or amino acids.
2016-10-15 23:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. I'm not a Bible student, but there is no "time" mentioned between the Heavens and the Earth. It doesn't say they both were created at the same time. (Please, no thumpers saying it was all on the first day!) There may have been billions of other Earths before this one.
2006-10-07 13:18:07 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here it gets a bit complicated.
At first I thought you meant that only human life was mentioned, and the first chapter of Genesis is full of fishes and fowls and beast and crawly things.
Then I realized that you meant extra terrestrial life and that changes things a bit.
If you go to Genesis 6, you will find mention of "Sons of God". They are usually described as angels, however, it is possible that theses "Sons of God" could be of extra terrestrial origin.
There are other mentions in the bible of possible extra terrestrial being who visited and interacted with man.
Notice, the word possible. It makes for interesting spectulation, but not proven fact.
2006-10-07 14:54:52 · answer #6 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bible deals with human history
is not a universal codex
listing the infinite number of universes and dimensions
where intelligent life resides
http://www.echoesofenoch.com/Book%20page.htm
2006-10-07 16:36:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no oversight. We have enough to handle (and that not well) to try to learn to live on earth without killing each other. We can't even get the "faith" stuff without bashing each other. There well could be much more "out there" but if we knew that for sure, don't you imagine we'd hunt it down to kill it?
2006-10-07 13:13:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God also didn't separate day from night until the third day. So the next question is how long are Gods days?
2006-10-07 13:19:01 · answer #9 · answered by Jack S. Buy more ammo! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there isn't life outside of Earth and heaven.
2006-10-07 13:16:33 · answer #10 · answered by LittleMermaid 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋