Walter Hicks wrote:
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> The only argument that I think could be valid is that God has a use
>for the rest
> of the 15 billion years of space-time that does not include
>mankind. My suspicion
> is that such may well be the case, but I certainly cannot support it from the
> Bible.
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A spheroidal earth, the Copernican model, Maxwell's
equations, DNA as the
basis for genetics, & the idea that representative democracy is a
better form of
civil government than monarchy - to name just a few of many - are
also ideas that
can't be supported from the Bible. We don't get our understanding of
the way the
physical world works from the Bible. & while our understanding of God & God's
relationship with the world is to be based upon scripture, it's not
to be achieved by
limiting our thinking entirely to the Bible: If that were the case
we wouldn't even
understand the Bible because we wouldn't know its language, geography &c.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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