Story of Matthew Maury using the Bible as a guide to discover ocean currents. In a nutshell, the US Naval Institute would not only publish the story if untrue in 1929, but then puts the quote of the entire verse of Ps 8:8 "Paths of the seas" on his monument. What did the US Naval academy know that modern skeptics don't know that would lead them to do this? The book also references an earlier newspaper story that says the same thing. But the evidence gets even more powerful, given the fact that the State of Virginia built a monument to Maury at Goshen Pass in 1923 and put this inscription on it: "HIS INSPIRATION HOLY WRIT Psalms 8 and 107, Verses 8, 23 and 24 Ecclesiastes Chap. 1, Verse 8http://www.bible.ca/tracks/matthew-fontaine-maury-pathfinder-of-sea-ps8.htm
2007-10-02 07:52:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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These anti-christian posters need to read each others posts before claiming to be 100% tolerant and wanting peace with "all".
I am still waiting for one to give a factual and intellectual posting.They all claim to be geniuses.
2007-10-02 08:46:06 · answer #1 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. From this, we can logically conclude that the Universe has always been there. But how does this make sense? By definition, the word "supernatural" means that it cannot be explained by natural laws. For the Big Bang to have occurred in accordance to the natural laws we already know, it would have to be an infinite pattern of expansions and contractions, which would mean there was never a beginning to it. This is where theists make the mistake of arguing from ignorance; because the origin of the Big Bang cannot be explained, God must have done it. However, considering that there was "nothing" (I put quotation marks around it because that's not entirely true) before the Big Bang, whatever caused it to occur was not bound by the laws of the Universe, because it didn't exist yet. Perhaps, then, something could have come from "nothing."
2016-05-19 15:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It took the bible for someone to find out about currents in the ocean? In 1929? Yowza.
2007-10-02 07:56:47 · answer #3 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heinrich Schliemann used the Odyssey to find Troy.
Athene works in mysterious ways.
2007-10-02 07:55:15 · answer #4 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
So, should we all pray to Homer, who wrote about Troy in the Odyssey, and thus contributed to its discovery?
I see Creatrix beat me to it.
2007-10-02 08:00:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And who says people aren't fundamentally stupid?
2007-10-02 08:00:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋