Re: Glenn makes front page of AiG today

From: Michael Roberts (topper@robertschirk.u-net.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 11:57:07 EST

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    One should also criticise Darwin for not accepting genes and DNA.

    Michael

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
    To: <PHSEELY@aol.com>
    Cc: <allenroy@peoplepc.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:47 PM
    Subject: Re: Glenn makes front page of AiG today

    > PHSEELY@aol.com wrote:
    >
    > > Allen wrote,
    > > ............................................................
    > > < It clearly says the sun is moving around the earth.
    > > Nowhere does the Bible say or infer that the earth is moving rather than
    the
    > > sun. Indeed, as Luther pointed out, the world (the earth upon which man
    > > dwells) is fixed and cannot be moved (Psa 93:1; 96:10).
    > >
    > > If "sound Biblical thinking" means that scientifically acquired data is
    > > interpreted within the Biblical paradigm, then you must join Luther in
    > > rejecting Copernicanism.
    >
    > Paul -
    > Of course your basic argument is correct but can we finally give
    Luther a
    > break on this? He certainly thought the sun went around the earth but so
    did
    > virtually everyone else in the mid-16th century. It's hardly fair to pick
    out an
    > after-dinner remark that a student remembered him as saying several years
    later &
    > use it to represent him as dogmatically anti-Copernican. Donald Kobe's
    article,
    > "Copernicus and Martin Luther: an encounter between science and religion"
    in
    > _American Journal of Physics_ 66 (3), March 1998, 190--196, is worth
    consulting in
    > this regard.
    >
    > Shalom,
    >
    > George
    >
    > George L. Murphy
    > http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
    > "The Science-Theology Interface"
    >
    >
    >
    >



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