02-05-2022, 12:59 AM
Ok, yes. I read about the study just now on Astronomy.com I don't see the amazement. It seems a 50/50 proposition. Either water was first or not. Thinking water was first seems to fit more in line with the Hebrew belief that water was held behind the "firmament" (the "waters above") which was like a big glass dome that separated the heavenly realm from the (flat) earth, so naturally if there is water in the sky, then water below would be there also (always from the beginning).
There is the old saying that it is meaningless to ask what was before the big bang since time itself began at the big bang and so there is no such concept as "before" from that point. It's like asking what is north of the north pole.
There is no faith in science. Faith is believing something to be true without any evidence for it whatsoever. Science puts forth models of the universe that have been tested and peer-reviewed and unlike religious beliefs and faith, are open to modification and change (usually to become more precise) when new facts and discoveries emerge. When something is not known, we just say we don't know, we do not offer a guess as fact.
It doesn't matter that night and day occur for the blind. The point is, is that night and day wouldn't occur for ANYONE without: 1) the sun and 2) the rotation of the earth, both of which weren't mentioned (#1 wasn't even "created") when "night and day" were being spoken about.
And see, that's the thing. The bible is like a cherry-picking, pick-and-choose what you want to take literally or figuratively. People can therefore make it say whatever they want it to. It's like what you're doing. Whenever it's got the scientific facts right, it's literal. When it's got the scientific facts wrong, it's being poetic.
There is the old saying that it is meaningless to ask what was before the big bang since time itself began at the big bang and so there is no such concept as "before" from that point. It's like asking what is north of the north pole.
There is no faith in science. Faith is believing something to be true without any evidence for it whatsoever. Science puts forth models of the universe that have been tested and peer-reviewed and unlike religious beliefs and faith, are open to modification and change (usually to become more precise) when new facts and discoveries emerge. When something is not known, we just say we don't know, we do not offer a guess as fact.
It doesn't matter that night and day occur for the blind. The point is, is that night and day wouldn't occur for ANYONE without: 1) the sun and 2) the rotation of the earth, both of which weren't mentioned (#1 wasn't even "created") when "night and day" were being spoken about.
And see, that's the thing. The bible is like a cherry-picking, pick-and-choose what you want to take literally or figuratively. People can therefore make it say whatever they want it to. It's like what you're doing. Whenever it's got the scientific facts right, it's literal. When it's got the scientific facts wrong, it's being poetic.