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Author Topic:   If our sun is second or third generation, does this not conflict with Genesis ?
Coragyps
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Message 217 of 231 (726145)
05-06-2014 5:22 PM
Reply to: Message 210 by Blue
05-06-2014 3:07 PM


Re: Creation of light
I also find it interesting that this is the only creation story in history that mentions creation of space and time...
Hesiod might disagree, were he still around:
Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills.
Don't listen to apologists that Make Stuff Up, Blue. They lie a lot.

"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken

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Coragyps
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Message 219 of 231 (726148)
05-06-2014 5:40 PM
Reply to: Message 218 by Blue
05-06-2014 5:23 PM


Re: Creation of light
I believe that this description is referencing exactly what it says... The moon does come out later in the day toward the night and is out all night. Most of the time it does rule the night, if not all the time.
You need to look up at the sky more often. The moon is "out all night" about three days a month, and is visible in the day sky about three weeks out of the month. Sometimes morning, sometimes evening.
This spills over in to the Joshua's long day fable: "Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."
How far is Gibeon from Ajalon? Would the sun being occupied in lighting the former require the moon to illuminate the latter?
Oops - caught you prior to your edit.
Edited by Coragyps, : No reason given.
Edited by Coragyps, : jumped too soon

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Coragyps
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Message 226 of 231 (726159)
05-06-2014 6:32 PM
Reply to: Message 221 by Blue
05-06-2014 5:48 PM


Re: Creation of light
Try that tonight.
And go look this afternoon if it's still daylight where you live.

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