Annie said: "... there had to be a sun before there
were trees"
Right, but the trees in the fossil record older than
40,000 years ago didn't have to have had the same sun
that we have today. The cataclysm, such as a comet
strike, could have knocked the earth out of its
proper orbit around another sun and sent the earth
wandering into interstellar space. The trees which
God miraculously restored to the earth (Genesis
1:11-13) after the cataclysm did have a temporary
light source (Genesis 1:3-5) which could have
supported photosynthesis; even if it didn't, the
trees could have easily survived for one day until a
new sun was created for the restored earth (Genesis
1:16-19).
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No, no, no, no and no. I think you've read enough of the Bible. Try reading a couple of books about science.
"The cataclysm, such as a comet
strike, could have knocked the earth out of its
proper orbit around another sun and sent the earth
wandering into interstellar space."
Hey Read, I loved Space:1999 too, but it was still scientific nonsense.
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Dude, actually read the fucking Bible! None of your bullshit is in Genesis, none.
I have no idea how he got this out of the bible.
Also, any impact from a comet powerful enough to knock earth from it's orbit around the sun with such force that the earth would get flung to another star system, would quite probably have completely destroyed earth.
"could have ... could have ... could have ..."
The only way fundies can even begin to make their bible appear true in their own minds is by adding a lot of wild-ass speculation to the mix ... and we all, at least those of us who have actually read the bible, know that's a no-no.
"a runaway comet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction..."
Oh, no...wait. That was the beginning to Thundarr the Barbarian. Nevermind.
Wanna bet the idiot, who invented this bad sci-fi nonsense with no scriptural basis, would jump your shit if you told him homosexuality is not metioned in the Bible, for not taking the Bible literally?
Sure, that seems reasonable...while we're at it, I think that the universe was created by Mick Jagger, on cocaine, taking a piss, and eating bologna.
Yeah, according to Immanuel Velikovsky (Worlds in Upheaval), this runaway comet turned into the planet Venus. Left unexplained is why, out of all the possible orbital planes, it ended up on one absolutely level with the other planets...
Comets have struck the Earth, but they were responsible for the Moon and mass extinctions, not a change in orbit. That would probably make the orbit more elliptical. But let's play along with this bit of very bad sci-fi, just for fun. The Earth is now in interstellar space, light-years from the Sun. Will there be trees, or any other form of life, even under som divine growing-lamp? NO!! The atmosphere will have frozen out. Read a science book, then you'll know that life wouldn't form on top of this frozen atmosphere, much less below it.
Heyoka - you're not far off. There was a Space: 1999 comic published back in the day in which Moonbase Alpha returned to Earth... around 3000BC... 2 moons created floodtastic tidal action...
So, point is, Martin Landau is Noah.
I've seen this "different state past" thing before. It's like as science answers more and more questions and the gaps for god to fill become smaller and smaller these explanations for how the bible is still literally correct become loonier and loonier.
Maybe some day the literalist view will become SO disconnected from reality that it'll be a limiting factor in its uptake in society.
*crosses fingers*
Why do fundies bother putting biblical citations after their bat shit crazy claims? It's not as if it adds any intellectual credibility, since citing the bible is about as reasonable as pulling the same quotation out of your ass. After all, that's how it all got started anyways, and it doesn't make much sense for an idiot to be selective about the bullshit he endorses.
The trees could easily survive one day with no heating source whatsoever? Yeah, right!
I know what happened to the clematis we forgot in the car over night at Easter, when the temperature dipped below freezing; it almost died, it took weeks before it started growing again. That was WITH a sun to orbit around. If there were no sun, the temperature would probably drop well below freezing in an hour or so.
If a comet had hit us hard enough to knock Earth out of its orbit ALL life would have died, not just some of it.
Which chapter and verse in the Bible explain about this miraculous restoration of trees after a comet-hit? I can't remember anything like that... What temporary light source? It would have to be large as the sun and reach all of Earth in about 24 hours.
Just give up already, honey; you won't be able to cram and twist the Bible around scientific evidence.
You know, you can actually do that calculation. Don't waste time with trying to knock the Earth out of its orbit with comets though, they're nowhere near massive enough. Still, it's possible (particularly when a planetary system is young and there's lots of stuff still around) to have planets ejected from a planetary system. Such rogue planets may actually be fairly common.
Then you can calculate what the odds are that such a rogue planet is caught by another star and ends up in a stable orbit.
I'll leave the details to you, but I will make the prediction that the odds are astronomically small. As in, practically 0.
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