Is this verse scientifically sound?

Question

"He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved" Psalm 104:5

So, the Earth doesn't rotate?Hmm.... Exactly what foundations are we on anyway that the Earth can't move?Are they like globe rods or something?


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If it is just a metaphor or just poetry then it can not be the truth according to God and thus a lie or some made up stuff to explain things from a perspective of someone who had no real understanding of how things actually work.

Macharia,

It doesn't make any sense?Neither does this: "The Bible is the word of God" or "The Bible was written by men who were inspired by God to write his words".Nothing I wrote in my question or the details is really that hard to understand when you put it against those phrases used by many Christians.That is, unless you're a bit slow.

Answer 1

From this verse, it also appears flat. I do believe the bible also talks about the pillars of the earth and the four corners of the earth. So science is obviously bunk.

Answer 2

(1) Psa 104:5 -
Who laid the foundations of the earth - Referring still to the creation of the earth. The margin is, “He hath founded the earth upon her bases.” The Hebrew word rendered in the margin “her bases” means properly a place; then a basis or foundation. The idea is, that there was something, as it were, placed under the earth to support it. The idea is not uncommon in the Scriptures.
That it should not be removed for ever - So that it cannot be shaken out of its place. That is, It is fixed, permanent, solid. Its foundations do not give way, as edifices reared by man. but it abides the same from age to age - the most fixed and stable object of which we have any knowledge.

Has the earth ever fallen out of it's orbit? Has it ever been removed from it's place in the galaxy?

Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

Answer 3

"If it is just a metaphor or just poetry then it can not be the truth according to God and thus a lie or some made up stuff to explain things from a perspective of someone who had no real understanding of how things actually work."

That makes absolutely no sense.

Answer 4

There a softer targets out there. Look at the whole of Genesis 1. That the Bible isn't scientifically sound doesn't really need restating.

Anyway, Psalms wasn't written by God, even in the mythology of the Bible.

Answer 5

Science and Bible verse are damn near mutually exclusive. But so is poetry. People need to read the bible that way. Not as a precise word of god but like a poem written by man from which to draw strength

Answer 6

Isaiah 40:22.
[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Let's try this one....scientists though the Earth was flat....the bible says it is a circle......Exactly what foundation did they base that on?

The Earth will stay just the way it is until Jesus returns....then he will destroy it and we will have a new Heaven and a new Earth...well some of us will....some of you might not..

Answer 7

Turtles. Really BIG turtles.

As Thomas Huxley concluded a lecture on Darwin, he was immediately accosted by a little, old lady who challenged him to refute her conviction that the world, which was flat, rested on the back of a turtle. Before Huxley had a chance to respond, the lady concluded:

"I know what you are going to ask, Mr. Huxley, and the answer is ‘it's turtles, all the way down'."
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Answer 8

Obviously not. It was written by someone who credited God will keeping life on earth going, but had no idea of the scientific realities of the universe.

Answer 9

And to think the sun is dragging all the planets toward the star Vega at 42,000 miles an hour.

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Answer 10

What would you expect superstitious men before the scientific age to write?