From: Robert Schneider (rjschn39@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 06:53:01 EST
Michael,
Be assured that I will not fall for such a looney explanation. But I shall delete this nonsense from my mind while enjoying the sight of these craters, and the moonbeams I also enjoy will be of the literal kind.
The notion that moon craters are a fall from the perfection of a perfect sphere sounds like a hangover from Aristotelian theory (curse Galileo and that telescope of his!). I have always been bemused by the sight of these creationists going to the wall to defend the doctrine (fixity of species) of this pagan philosopher. Let us pray that eventually they will come to recognize their own Fall, not from grace but from reality.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Roberts
To: Robert Schneider ; ASA@calvin.edu
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: A Lunar Meditation
Bob
There is also the understanding of the moon taught in state schools in England. This is part of a lecture by the head of science of Emmanuel College Gateshead, sponsored by Sir Peter Vardy and endorsed by Tony Blair as a good school.
Steven Layfield wrote
"Besides the obvious principle of decay bound up within the famous second law of thermodynamics, we may well consider invoking the historical fall event to explain effects such as lunar craters, certain pathological virus infections and various instances where nature now appears 'red in tooth and claw'."
Now deleted from the Christian Institute website. I wonder why.
So when we look at the moon we must realise the craters were caused by the Fall.
More serious nonsense
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Schneider
To: ASA@calvin.edu
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 2:26 AM
Subject: A Lunar Meditation
Those of us who live on Deck Hill overlooking Boone, in the Blue Ride Mountains of western North Carolina, were blessed with a clear sky during the early evening. So my wife and I watched the moon in its fullness as the shadow descended over it. A little before 8 p.m. I went out on the front porch in my down coat--it's a cold mountain evening here--and sat and watched Sister Moon as the eclipse went into totality. Except for the traffic down on US 321 all was quiet, as in her gentle and less spectacular way from Brother Sun, she was covered.
We who live in the age of science have a different explanation from other peoples who believed that some animal or demon swallowed the moon, and or saw an eclipse as portending some significant and perhaps fearful event. Yet the view of the moon in eclipse was no less awe-inspiring. A beautiful thing was this eclipse, and any thing of beauty is worth a prayer of thanks to the Creator whose universe contains so many delights for us who live in this tiny corner of it.
Grace and peace,
Bob Schneider
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