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Why does the earth rotate?

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The sun never started the earth rotating. The sun was made after the earth.
 
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No, because the world wasn't created.
By that, you mean you can put together a scenario by which a planet can form from space dust and even make predictions with that information?

Predictions that come true, as astronomers observe planets being formed according to their equations?
 
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You admit having no objective evidence then. Haha. Now as to your opinion on why you have none..sorry, that has no currency.

This is a very odd reply to a post which gives a reference to a discussion on the evidence for how the earth formed. Can you actually address the evidence on that page, or are you just going to try and pretend it doesn't exist?
 
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The more important issue is that you in no way are in any position to challenge it.

Really? How about you actually start by SUPPORTING it? You've never been able to do that!


The fact that a collection of ancient mythology makes a particular claim does not mean that claim is correct. You need to learn this.


Citation needed.


Sounds like blind obedience to me, the sort that discourages investigation.
 
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And if we were to accept that as an answer, wouldn't that be the only answer we'd eve need? What causes people to get sick? Goddidit! And we'd leave it at that, and never learn about hygiene. And we'd live in a world with much more sickness than we have now. Such an answer would mean we'd never develop the tools that we have that allow us instantaneous communication around the world, or any of the other things we use to help save lives and enrich our society.

Is that a world you'd want to live in?

The fact that you are able to even read this thread is proof that being satisfied with "Goddidit" is a poor answer.
 
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The fact that you are able to even read this thread is proof that being satisfied with "Goddidit" is a poor answer.
Would "God started it" help you understand it better?
KTS said:
And if we were to accept that as an answer, wouldn't that be the only answer we'd eve need?
No.
KTS said:
What causes people to get sick?
God gifted us Rudolf Virchow. Ask him.
KTS said:
And we'd leave it at that, and never learn about hygiene.
Except God gifted us Dr John Snow to help with that.
KTS said:
And we'd live in a world with much more sickness than we have now.
Only if the gifts God gave us, in the form of scientists, were aborted.
KTS said:
Such an answer would mean we'd never develop the tools that we have that allow us instantaneous communication around the world, or any of the other things we use to help save lives and enrich our society.
That's why you need to understand that God gifts us scientists to sudy His creation, and in so doing, make our lives better.
KTS said:
Is that a world you'd want to live in?
Not for eternity.
 
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If your world view was correct, then God also gifted us Darwin, Wallace, and huge numbers of biologists who have examined (and checked and rechecked) the evidence and came to the conclusion that evolution is the only way to explain life on earth. Why do you deny the work of these scientists that I presume you believe 'God gifted us'?
 
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If your world view was correct, then God also gifted us Darwin,
I won't dispute that.

But in Darwin's case -- as in Nimrod's -- he ended up using his talents against God.
 
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What's the reinterpretation (or, "context") of "the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved." 1Chron 16:30?
 
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In another place in the bible for example it mentionsmen as grasshoppers to God. Guess what? If one was hovering somewhere in a usual orbit circle, that is what men look like!

Uh, actually men are not visible from anywhere in a usual orbit circle
 
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I won't dispute that.

But in Darwin's case -- as in Nimrod's -- he ended up using his talents against God.

Making new discoveries in science is not using one's talents against God. Rather, saying false things about reality such as denying God's use of evolution is using one's talents against God.
 
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Making new discoveries in science is not using one's talents against God.
That's right.

God gives us scientists to find what He hid in nature.

Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
 
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That's right.

God gives us scientists to find what He hid in nature.

Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Yes, but they keep refusing to search out that truth hidden from the beginning.

Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
 
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Yes, but they keep refusing to search out that truth hidden from the beginning.
Unfortunately, yes.

And some end up becoming atheists.

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise,* they became fools,

* Homo sapiens = wise man

And look what Paul says they go on to do:

Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 
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Exactly - but their faith in this image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things can never be shaken. They have taken what is clearly evident for those that choose to understand, and twisted it into what has been corrupted. Only when one understands that which was made and what it was made from - can one begin to understand that image we were made in. An image the Word declares no image can be made of.

And how true - for who can make an image of energy - pure mind?
 
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