Comments on: It’s a small Universe after all

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:05:16 +0000

MattFunke: When Adam fell, the world fell. Man didn’t have to farm to create food. Food was provided by God in the garden. When the earth was formed, when man was created, trees were fully formed as well. Man would have starved if all there was in the world was a bunch of saplings. Your logic just diesn’t make sense.

@Robert: If the story wasn’t true, then I’m sure it would have been discredited by now, but unfortunately, it hasn’t. Shame.

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:09:19 +0000

I think I recall it’s not quite 6010 years, the anniversary is late October. No, I’m not kidding… but I’m not a believer either.

One basic time limit in the story is that Adam is stated in Genesis 5 to have died aged 930 years, which, besides archaeological evidence, rules out a long (well, archaeologically long) human existence in Eden.

The story isn’t true, and it is muddled and stupid thinking to wish that it is in some way true when you know that it isn’t.

By: Omotayo Onabamiro

Omotayo Onabamiro — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:38:21 +0000

The Bible is much deeper than what we think and very scientific. See my blog, http://www.bloguido.com/tayo123 for a solution of the length of the days in Genessis. I believe, there, I put an end to the Creation-Evolution debate.
The Bible is supported or should I say what the Bible describes in Genesis is confirmed by science.

By: Omotayo Onabamiro

Omotayo Onabamiro — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:51:31 +0000

Nowhere does the Bible say the Universe is just around 6000 years old. Those saying so are mistaken and do not know the scriptures. See my work, Newton’s third law, laws. and the Creation account recorded in Genesis in my website.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:54:51 +0000

This was a most engaging read. I enjoyed it so much.

By: Jef

Jef — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:21:19 +0000

The bible novel was written in a time when science and math (as we now know it) was non-existent. It help explain the world in the best way of the time; storytelling and word of mouth. Reason and logic as explanation for the concepts of the bible was not possible, since it was the first of its kind. Who knows what the situation was with its writers? Maybe they were sleep deprived or suffering dehydration halucinations. Maybe just not knowing. We’ll never know for sure.

How a portion of modern western world can honestly (and faithfully) follow even the literal re-interpretation of such a text (new testament) is beyond comprehension in todays world. Lack of education is at the heart of the issue, which is at the heart of the debate for teaching creationism in the science ciriculum. Maybe a complete modern reinterpretation is due, a scientific based version of the lessons portrayed in every section of the bible. A new-NEW-testament, written by a science-minded christian who is fed up with it all. Although I highly doubt any such person brought up with such beliefs exists, since it would undermine the very teachings of his/her lifetime indoctrination.

After reading some of the comments and their respective websites (like skeptics annotated bible) I admire your attempt to take on such topics and thank you Phil Plait for your somewhat futile efforts. Please
Keep up the good work.

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:37:54 +0000

MattFunke,

Thank you. I also acted that way, I believe, saying things that were false and certainly not backed by evidence or even common sense. My apologies. Don’t worry about offending me, that is an extremely difficult thing to do. I hope I haven’t either.

The implication â€” that demons are not made worthy by their simple belief â€” seems clear enough, especially since this is to be found in a passage about how faith without works is useless.

The Bible is extremely inconsistent on this point. There are many passages that explicitly state that faith is the only thing required for salvation, while there are many others that explicitly state the exact opposite.

The issue of the trinity, however, is not explicitly discussed in the Bible, and it wasn’t until the Nicean council that it was officially established to be the trinity.