And it is perfectly feasible to interpret His words as not being literally meant.
Certainly it's feasible -- you do it all the time. However methinks it takes an incredible amount of chutzpah to inform God when He literally meant something and when He didn't! I find nowhere in the Bible any indication that the purpose of our brains is to disagree with Him. In fact, that little use of our intelligence is EXACTLY what Satan told Eve to do regarding a certain piece of fruit....
God's universe proceded from His "Mouth" when He created all things by speaking them into existance. What He made cannot lie. We can believe what it tells us.
He made us and we lie all the time. Forms of deceit, such as camaflauge, are part of nature. When you say we can believe what nature tells us, I think you will find that there are a lot of interpretations regarding what different folk feel nature is telling us!
That speed of light thing, for instance -- hundreds of measurements before and a number since 1941 indicate the speed of light has not been constant. However Birge declared it constant in 1941, despite his own acceptance of the different measurements right up until that time! But he then said that if it were not constant, that would be against the "spirit of science." Excuse me?? WHAT spirit? I prefer the truth, myself, and if the spirit of science, so-called, depends on a man's declarations in order to avoid the data itself, then forget the men. I'd rather see the data.
You've been pounding your speed of light drum for quite a while now, totally ignoring the data itself in favor of some very mistaken (as Barry has repeatedly pointed out to you) ideas. In the meantime, more and more articles are starting to appear in the physics journals questioning the constancy of the speed of light through time. Barry may not be referenced yet, but his time will come. In the meantime, I strongly suggest that if you are going to keep referencing the constancy of the speed of light, that you read the articles as they are coming out now. They disagree with you.
Certainly it's feasible -- you do it all the time. However methinks it takes an incredible amount of chutzpah to inform God when He literally meant something and when He didn't! I find nowhere in the Bible any indication that the purpose of our brains is to disagree with Him. In fact, that little use of our intelligence is EXACTLY what Satan told Eve to do regarding a certain piece of fruit....
God's universe proceded from His "Mouth" when He created all things by speaking them into existance. What He made cannot lie. We can believe what it tells us.
He made us and we lie all the time. Forms of deceit, such as camaflauge, are part of nature. When you say we can believe what nature tells us, I think you will find that there are a lot of interpretations regarding what different folk feel nature is telling us!
That speed of light thing, for instance -- hundreds of measurements before and a number since 1941 indicate the speed of light has not been constant. However Birge declared it constant in 1941, despite his own acceptance of the different measurements right up until that time! But he then said that if it were not constant, that would be against the "spirit of science." Excuse me?? WHAT spirit? I prefer the truth, myself, and if the spirit of science, so-called, depends on a man's declarations in order to avoid the data itself, then forget the men. I'd rather see the data.
You've been pounding your speed of light drum for quite a while now, totally ignoring the data itself in favor of some very mistaken (as Barry has repeatedly pointed out to you) ideas. In the meantime, more and more articles are starting to appear in the physics journals questioning the constancy of the speed of light through time. Barry may not be referenced yet, but his time will come. In the meantime, I strongly suggest that if you are going to keep referencing the constancy of the speed of light, that you read the articles as they are coming out now. They disagree with you.