Allegedly, rainbows were started off by God to remind us of the time he drowned most of the world. But physics say that it is simply the natural refraction of light within a prism (in this case a rather crude prism - a raindrop) that causes us to perceive the multitude of colours.
Did God change the way light works just to remind us, were raindrops a different shape before the Flood, did it really never rain before then?
So which is true?
2007-02-04 21:09:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry Teshua2007, we have a large understanding of why light acts like it does actually.
2007-02-05 01:38:57 · update #1
of course it rained before then, the rainbow is a natural event and was there before the flood.
It was only used as a reminder after the flood, so people would remember.
2007-02-04 21:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps both may be correct. Prior to the Flood, the earth was most likely a very different place. God seperated the waters above from the waters below. Perhaps during the Flood, the first water fell from the sky.
In REvelation, we see our only glimpse of the throne room of God in heaven. Around and above the throne, God has placed a rainbow to remind Himself never to flood the entire world again.
2007-02-04 21:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Light has always behaved like that. God didn't change anything, except maybe the raindrops. The might have been made into triangular prisms for the occasion
2007-02-04 21:17:05 · answer #3 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, how does light work, exactly? To my knowledge, no one, not even Einstein, has explained what splits the light into the colors of the bow. He died an unhappy, frustrated man, having failed completely at trying to complete any unified field theory. Mathematicians are still scratching their heads about that one, and about the 'cause' of the quantum level boundaries as well.
The fact that the boundaries are there is obvious enough...but what made them, and how are they functioning? Has anyone taken a picture of an electron yet? If so, Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty is no longer valid...but nobody's proven him wrong yet! As far as the story of Noah goes, it's still at least as good as any other answer I've heard so far...God posed similar questions to Job and his 'friends', and none of them came up with anything sensible, either. So much for trying to pin down God--He's beyond human understanding!
2007-02-04 21:48:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It HAD to have rained before the Great Flood, but if God's as omnipotent as is commonly believed, I see no reason to think that He couldn't bend the laws of refraction to suit His needs.
2007-02-04 21:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ark/arc story was just a primitive tribe's way of explaining rainbows. They didn't understand what they were, so they wrote it into the Bible (along with a lot of other things), thus establishing their deity as the god of gaps. Fortunately, science has explained this, and the more it explains, the less religion explains.
2007-02-04 21:17:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
should you do take the Bible actually, you're not ordinary a number of their sacred beliefs. you may no longer agree, yet you also may be extra respectful and kind. in my opinion, i imagine the info of the Flood tale are extra about the relationships between God, humanity, and something else of creation. it truly is a narrative about God's loathe of sin, jointly with violence or maybe the actual undeniable actuality that carnivores ought to dedicate violence to proceed to exist, about God's interplay with humanity, and about God's love for all that exists. the tale gained't sit nicely with our medical ears, yet why ought to you anticipate someone writing more effective than 2000 years in the past to position in writing in accordance to our cutting-edge criteria? acceptable to enter into the tale, pay interest for the knowledge and holiness it contains, and take it from its personal attitude. Sitting in judgement over it frequently leads us to prideful vanity.
2016-11-02 09:03:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion explains matters of the soul.
Science explains matters of the physical universe....
I'm a devout Roman Catholic, and even I would trust physics when it comes to this one. Rainbows existed before Noah.
2007-02-04 21:15:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The truth is: God can sit on my thumb........Einstein proved mathematically why the sky is blue, what does your bible say......its all apologists.......there are religious people and then there are apologists......those who make excuses for their beliefs.
2007-02-04 21:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋