The seasons and times are defined by such things as sunlight, photosynthesis, the weather, etc. which are a result of the very heavens God created for us. The bible says until the world ends, summer and winter will never cease. I mean that we won't get our beloved petroleum, or food, or water, or a new place to live, or any new organic friends from any of the celestial bodies.
Nothing I have said or written denies any of this... There are some crazy alien conversations over on the Apologetics board, but I certainly don't take that junk seriously either.
Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Again, I agree with this and have not made a claim against it.
The 'very laws by which all things operate' include this thing called 'quantum fluctuation'. "In quantum physics, a quantum fluctuation is the temporary change in the amount of energy in a point in space,[1] arising from Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle." Simply put, that means they are really uncertain of what exactly happened. But I am certain of what happened because of Genesis 1. I don't need endlessly developing and complex equations to explain it, I have the straightforward truth right there in front of me.
As far as I know, quantum fluctuations can only be applied for short periods of time... how short that is and what that means for all future occurances, I don't know. Of course we are uncertain as to what actually happened. But then again, so are you. I take the Biblical account of creation as the inspired telling of creation as well, but from a theological perspective, not a scientific one. Surely you understand the difference between theology and science...where one does not contradict the other.
And then you bring up the idea of truth again. Yes, Genesis 1 is the truth of why God created man and it is an abbreviated explanation of some of the most important truths about the relationship between man and God and the relationships between man and women. But it is not, as is expressed in other areas of the Bible, the one and only creation story.
Also, physics theories are not what everything operates by. God does not operate by physics. He created them. The resurrection of Christ and the very creation of the universe is not explainable through physics theories.
You're right. The world operates on the Laws of Physics. And you're right again that God does not operate by them. He is above them, evidenced because he created them.
I could argue that the creation of the universe is explainable through physics, but that obviously wouldn't get us anywhere.
As for what you said about my citation of General Relativity, what else do you want me to do -- give up? The geocentric model is attacked by one scientific theory, and it so turns out another scientific theory can deflect that attack. Fight fire with fire!
No. I don't want you to give up. I just want you to be reasonable. Believing in the Geocentric model as the actual physical operating method of the solar system or the universe is in accurate. If you want to use that as a way of looking at your daily life, there is nothing wrong with that. I mean, for many many many centuries man had no idea what was beyond the atmosphere and they carried out their daily lives just fine. It's not like knowledge of space is absolutely necessary for your survival. We do live here, and standing on the surface of the Earth does give the impression that all of the heavens are moving around us. HOWEVER, since we now know that the central point of objects in our solar system is the Sun, and not the Earth, since this is actually observable once you leave the confines of standing on the Earth, then claiming that the Geocentric model is factually correct, and trying to make "scientific" claims based on that, is just silly.
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