The Solar System vs. the Bible vs. Skepticism
06 July 2014 [link youtube]
It's a clear case of the Solar System vs. the Bible... and it isn't hard to guess which side is going to win (in terms of making sense of the world outside your window), but, in this case, the Bible has something important to teach us about the history of the English language, at least.
When atheists get into debating these issues with Christians (as both Jaclyn Glenn and The Amazing Atheist have recently done) they seem to be willing to allow their opponents to misrepresent Biblical cosmology as compatible with the modern solar system (or as being identical to modern physics, aside from the added presence of a divinity at the top) --and nothing could be further from the truth. In most cases, the vagueness of Bible translations allows both sides to remain unaware of what it is that they're really debating, when they contrast ancient and modern preconceptions about the world.
Youtube Automatic Transcription
the heliocentric model of the solar system angry voices, on the internet, that are debating geocentric or otherwise. the Christians nor the atheists are being or tradition, or history, or science, it is the positive scientific argument for how the significance and even literary and symbolic language evolved to look at what the Bible what the shape of the universe is. and poetic terms for the sky as "the heavens", heavenly firmament". if you had a totally secular upbringing, and read those words in the Bible without really were used instead of clearer and more sensible you from asking hard questions. within "firmament"? translators tried to be as poetic and vague of the world really was in most-ancient Judaism, tradition. translation of the Bible, and his so-called be made in the midst of the waters, and part temple Judaism) is that the ocean exists above the ground that we're standing on, and that vault of the heavens. material for the sky, so that the air we're it, as well as an ocean below it. and magical, from a modern perspective. to the heliocentric view of the universe. has the neutron in the middle, and the other absolutely no comparison. the New International Version of the Bible vault between the waters to separate water and the water below. back again to the 14th century, he was already in rephrasing this: "Be made a firmament in from waters". the solar system to the Biblical model of that makes sense to something that looks like on the outside, the air is on the inside, being much smaller than the earth, not larger, god created for you to breathe in). sense, not just in reading the Bible, but literature from Shakespeare's poetry on down. mean "question the value of scientific claims", the world's history, philosophy, language that, uh, we supposedly or hopefully ascribe