[Bible says the sky is a dome? but we recently figured that out.?]
Science is slowly catching up to the bible.
Science just figured out the earth was round 400 years ago. The bible stated that it was a sphere 3500 years ago.
I suppose you think the sky is blue too, dont you... Its not.
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"Science just figured out the earth was round 400 years ago. The bible stated that it was a sphere 3500 years ago."
Two obvious lies.
"I suppose you think the sky is blue too, dont you... Its not."
Another fundy that confuses what MAKES the sky look blue with whether the sky "IS" blue.
I suppose you think grass and leaves are green, don't you. Actually chlorophyll in the grass and leaves absorb all the red lightwaves and only the blue and yellow (=green) get reflected. So you see, grass and leaves are not green at all!
And you thought that your eyes were brown. They simply absorb all the light that hits them except for a small amount of reds and yellows and blues, and what they reflect back looks 'brown'. But your eyes are not brown at all.
And you thought blood was red. The hemoglobin in it simply absorbs every wavelength except red (unless you're a vulcan). Blood isn't red at all.
Etc.
The Bible talks about "the circle of the earth", which is just what the bronze age goat herders thought the earth was: a big disk with a dome over the top, like a snow globe. It says nothing about a sphere. The Greeks knew it was a sphere 2,500 years ago.
Technically the sky does not have a color. It's just that atmospheric particles reflect sunlight in such a way that it reaches our eyes at the blue wavelength.
That still does not excuse this massive pile of bullshit. The bible NEVER uses the word "sphere", and science is catching up with the Bible the same way Brain is catching up with Pinkie.
"Science just figured out the earth was round 400 years ago. The bible stated that it was a sphere 3500 years ago."
Bullshit. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in 250 B.C.E. The Greeks were discussing the shape of the Earth as early as 400 B.C.E.
Your Babble, on the other hand, describes the Earth as a "circle" which is as close as it gets to the truth. Every other reference strongly implies that the Earth is flat, such as when Satan takes Jesus to the top of a mountain to show him all the kingdoms of the world.
"I suppose you think the sky is blue too, dont you... Its not."
True, the gasses that make up the atmosphere aren't blue but the sky is blue due to the refraction of light as it passes through the moisture and other particles in the atmosphere. Did you have some sort of point you were attempting to make?
Was the Tanakh even written and compiled 3500 years ago?
I'm familiar with the 1200BCE estimate, but that may be too early as well.
The rest of the post invites me into negative IQ territory. Thanks, I'll pass.
"I suppose you think the sky is blue too, dont you... Its not."
Well, shit...not today it isn't. Michigan is one gray-ass state.
The way the earth looks according to the bible, is if you were to set up a snow globe on four pedestals. And the circle is also a square. However that works. The bible never says the earth is a sphere, the Prophet Isaiah calls it a circle, and not 3500 years ago, not too long before the Greeks discovered that it was a sphere.
@Grigadil: The first books of the OT were supposed to have been written somewhere around 2000 bc. The actual compilation of it into a single volume didn't take place until after the Babylonian captivity, around 630 bc.
The Bible never claimed that the Earth was spherical. At the time, that didn't matter anyway. The Ancient Greeks figured out the earth wasn't flat when they saw ships vanish on the horizon. That was, for them, a dead giveaway. Besides, Columbus figured it out before 1492, so the 400 year figure is GROSSLY wrong.
As for the sky being blue...actually, it isn't. They're technically right. Scientists have figured out that the human eye does a great job perceiving green, but has a devil of a time dealing with purple. If we could perceive all colors equally, the sky would be a nice lavender color.
@ Horsefeathers
Don't be the B.C.E guy, if you're gonna date by the birth of Jesus, just call it B.C. and A.D. There is absolutely no need for the superfluous term "Common Era."
Maybe I'm just pissed off that B.C.E. has an extra letter in it...
1 - The bible never said the earth is a sphere
2 - Even if it did, it would still be wrong
3 - The sky is not blue, but it does look blue thanks to Rayleigh scattering.
4 - The bible says the sky is blue.
The Bible states that the world is a flat disc held inside a firmiment.
People figured out the world was round, and even how large it was, during the time of Ptolemy.
"Science is slowly catching up to the bible."
The Bible isn't even right about things known before it's time. Other cultures knew the world was round, charted the stars and planets (and knew the difference) and had better, less barbaric religions
The ancient Greek philosophers knew the Earth was round, and they knew it from observations, not from reading some fantasy book.
Let's say the Bible is right on everything. We still need to double check with nature itself. You do understand that, do you not? Good.
@484
Don't like it? Tough shit.
When you can show me that the Christian god exists, incarnated himself as Jesus as he was depicted in the Bible and his birthday was accurately calculated I'll use B.C. and A.D. Until then I'll stick with the accepted secular notation of B.C.E. and C.E.
With the caliber of academic excellence he's shown thus far, is anyone seriously wondering whether he is being sarcastic in his last comment about the sky?
I'm starting to question my OWN sanity after reading this.
@Horsefeathers
Exactly!
It was about damn time that BC/AD was swapped for something secular ... (interestingly I almost wrote "sexual", but I caught my freudian slip in time).
I too will use BCE/CE until someone can put absolute proof on the table before me, in which case there really would not be any point anymore to be an atheist.
ok we'll play your game. what does the bible say about:
electricity
silicon
electronics
radio waves
rockets
nuclear fusion/fission
radiation
telecommunications
medicine
robotics
antibiotics
flight
submersibles
quarks and quasars
...
oh you do have something in there about PI=3... yep science is really having a hard time caching up.
The Mahabharata - which PrEDATES the bible by over 1200 years, not only describes the world as a ball, but gives the correct size of that ball.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was the first to accurately estimate the Earth's diameter, around 220 BC.
The sky appears blue to human eyes because of the refraction of sunlight.
This is basic physics predating your moronic bible.
The bible is only 1600 years old, the Torah 2200, the Quran 1460. NONE of them refer to a spherical earth.
Next time fit wheels to your goalpost, the sound of metal dragging on bullshit is deafening.
Depends what you mean by 'blue'. Things have colour either by what wavelengths of light reflect off them or what wavelengths of light pass through them. Either way it's just a word for the way our brain perceives the various wavelengths of light hitting our retinas. So basically the sky has the property we call 'blue' or you could just as easily argue that it has no colour but the light scattering makes it look blue. Same thing and a pretty much pointless exercise in semantics.
And people knew the world was round a lot longer than 400 years ago.
Confused?
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