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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why? To What End???
« on: September 29, 2020, 08:56:05 AM »Firstly, Charles Darwin IS the only reason evolution theorem exists in it's current form. Before his study on the Galapagos islands in the 1800s, he was a preacher/minister, he was a christian!! For thousands of years, civilizations knew the earth was geocentrical and flat in nature, some even theorized of cubed earth. None of these civilizations before 800 bc, thought we "evolved" from bacteria over "millions" of years.QuoteI am a Christian and my take on it all is that had I been born 500 years ago I probably would think that the Scriptures were scientifically accurate.QuoteRight. And ancient civilizations thought that everything was made of 4 elements - fire, water, air, earth. Many of then believed in multiple Gods.
True, however I encourage you to read "False Prophet Azazel" by John of the gentiles. It explains in detail the origin of Roman, Greek, Norse, Hindi, Buddhism.. mythologies. It is a fascinating read.
QuoteOur modern civilization and technologies are built on many things which ancient civilizations hadn't discovered or didn't understand.
Agreed to a certain extent, take the United States: Its heritage and history owes most of its cultural roots to Europe with a sprinkling of vast and diverse cultures from across the earth. Also, notice the United states uses Latin in its seals? Such as E PLURIBUS UNUM (out of many, one), also consider the use of the " Eagle" as their official mascot if you will. Combining these two facts, you can trace back this ideology and symbology to ancient Rome. In essence, before Rome fell in 507 b.c, it had two 2 colonies, France and what is modern England. These two lands were colonies of the Roman Empire and once the city fell, it is fairly safe to assume they fled to these colonies and settled them. So as I agree our civilization is much more technologically sound and scientifically advanced, much of the philosophies and ideologies that were manifested in ancient Rome and Greece in the late BCE era, is still taught today. For instance, The core comprehension of the Big Bang theory is the copernican system of cosmology "Heliocentric model", however it is known fact that pythagoras conceived a theory that toyed with the notion of a spherical earth and planetary bodies, so did newton.
But being born now I understand them in a different way. Genesis tells us that we are a creation, it tells us Who created us and for what purpose. It also tells us about our need for redemption - the New Testament deals with that of course.
The exact timescales and mechanisms of creation - leave that to science. I see them as complimentary rather than contradictory.
It is important to note that the word "Science" is a dirivitive of the Latin-"Scientia" which means Mans knowledge or systematized knowledge. In fact: philosophy, science, Natural Magic(would be known today as an archaic form of the modern term "physics"), also alchemy(chemistry,"pharma") all are synonymous terminology. Now, this is not intended to be a disagreement nor rebuttal, simply a interesting set of facts for you to consider.