02-04-2022, 10:53 PM
Hey Duke, you commented:
Logic requires that ocean preceded fish, rock preceded ocean ... and stars/sun/light preceded all.
So, our senses organize the world in exactly the order in which it came to be... because our senses came last.
I believe that humans 4,000 years ago were every bit as intelligent as humans today. They just didn't have the knowledge base that we have now.
The powers of logic and observation were most valuable 40 centuries ago, and humans most likely used those powers to describe the sequence written in Genesis. Still, correctly stating that dry land arose after Earth was purely a "water world", and that life appeared in the oceans first, and then appeared on land, is pretty remarkable.
Arguing that Genesis gets some things dead wrong does not invalidate the things it gets right. It is fascinating stuff.
As an aside, I'm very interested what our observations from the WEBB space telescope will reveal: how many new questions will be posed.
Logic requires that ocean preceded fish, rock preceded ocean ... and stars/sun/light preceded all.
So, our senses organize the world in exactly the order in which it came to be... because our senses came last.
I believe that humans 4,000 years ago were every bit as intelligent as humans today. They just didn't have the knowledge base that we have now.
The powers of logic and observation were most valuable 40 centuries ago, and humans most likely used those powers to describe the sequence written in Genesis. Still, correctly stating that dry land arose after Earth was purely a "water world", and that life appeared in the oceans first, and then appeared on land, is pretty remarkable.
Arguing that Genesis gets some things dead wrong does not invalidate the things it gets right. It is fascinating stuff.
As an aside, I'm very interested what our observations from the WEBB space telescope will reveal: how many new questions will be posed.