tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post116450857827838306..comments2023-10-20T21:46:49.945+08:00Comments on Philippine Commentary: Sunday School: What Was God Doing Before He Invented Man?Deany Bocobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1164757782547797782006-11-29T07:49:00.000+08:002006-11-29T07:49:00.000+08:00Tom,That science is a series of successive approxi...Tom,<BR/>That science is a series of successive approximations to the truth cannot be denied. There is really nothing 'exact' about science in that sense. But that is its strength, not its weakness. Science builds on what it knows to be FALSE not what it knows to be TRUE. I think that is what it means for some idea to be "scientific" that it is "falsifiable". <BR/><BR/>One thing for sure, Ussher was wrong. That we know. We also "know" that the earth is "about" 4 billion years old. But we are open to correction.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1164637303866066372006-11-27T22:21:00.000+08:002006-11-27T22:21:00.000+08:00The trouble with Ussher and the literalists is tha...The trouble with Ussher and the literalists is that they believe God incapable of poetry. But what kind of logic do the attackers of belief use when they accuse the belief according to the folly of believers? They in turn believe believers are incapable of screwing up.Jegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11806891595153451306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1164584222376039422006-11-27T07:37:00.000+08:002006-11-27T07:37:00.000+08:00A warm welcome to Philippine Commentary, Sattvic W...A warm welcome to Philippine Commentary, Sattvic Warrior.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1164584180869198732006-11-27T07:36:00.000+08:002006-11-27T07:36:00.000+08:00MB,I was only arguing with Ussher, not GOD. For it...MB,<BR/><BR/>I was only arguing with Ussher, not GOD. For it is not God that is a deep mystery, but MAN.<BR/><BR/>In fact, this is not about God at all. It's about paleontology and ancient earth history. <BR/><BR/>It's about catastrophe on a planetary scale, about vulcanism and comet impacts and global warming.<BR/><BR/>I think the mistake that Ussher made is not numerical but metaphorical. By quantifying the age of the Universe, he had mixed up the symbolism and mystery of Genesis with arithmetic and geology and biology. This brought upon Religion a vulnerability by which Science could attack it in the ponderable, material world. <BR/><BR/>In trying to use Science to serve Religion, Ussher had demeaned Religion, and exposed it to the attacks it has suffered, deservedly!<BR/><BR/>But God in His Heaven--I'm sure he is safe from these worldly manifestations.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1164578279796914582006-11-27T05:57:00.000+08:002006-11-27T05:57:00.000+08:00Dear DJB, your Sunday School Post intrigues me and...Dear DJB, your Sunday School Post intrigues me and I have to make a comment much against my druthers.<BR/><BR/>When God finished creating the earth and created man, a day was reckoned by how many hours the earth rotates in its orbit and a year by how many days the earth revolves around the sun. That comes to 24 hours a day and 365-1/4 days in a year. That's how man reckons time.<BR/><BR/>But from the time God began creating the universe up to when he finished creating the earth and man, THAT WAS GOD'S TIME. And one day of God is equivalent to a THOUSAND years to man. King David, the Psalmist wrote in Psalms 90:4<BR/>"For a thousand years in your (God's) sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night."<BR/><BR/>2002 years of that 4004 years are God's time and should be reckoned by that and you will get your billions of years, more in fact. Just how many, I don't know and won't venture to even think about it because that belongs to the realm of God and is beyond the comprehension of a mere man. For how can one explain INFINITY? <BR/><BR/><BR/>But upBernardo F. Ronquillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04054476909603464900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1164575636238036612006-11-27T05:13:00.000+08:002006-11-27T05:13:00.000+08:00cool/ a LITTLE long but a GOOD read. thanks fo...cool/ a LITTLE long but a GOOD read. thanks for sharing:)sattvicwarriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12223480813668927698noreply@blogger.com