Centuries ago science disproved Genesis 1:6-8 (which, needless to say, blew a huge hole in the story of Noah’s ark). In the creation story the heavens and the earth coexist in a physical universe. The earth sits below, covered in a little water. The rest of the water rests on a physical boundary above the earth. The stars are holes in this physical boundary through which heavenly water can fall to earth as rain. Above that is god and his angels.
This is called the Firmament, a physical, dome-shaped boundary between heaven and earth. The Firmament is central to the Noah story. Prior to the flood, it had never rained on earth. Then god opened the Firmament and flooded the earth with heavenly water.
But we now know that there is no Firmament. We’ve known this for 500 years, possibly as much as 1,400 years. There is no dome-shaped, snow globe-like structure surrounding our planet. Rain comes from evaporated water that collects as clouds. And stars are massive, gravity-rich plasma spheres that generate massive amounts of energy by breaking down hydrogen into helium (for the majority of their lives). They are not holes in anything!
This is an enormous problem with the creation story that cannot be reconciled with fact. The vast, vast, vast majority of Jews, Christians, and Muslims do not even claim this part of the creation story to be true. But if this can be so easily dismissed, why do so many have a hard time dismissing everything else in the bible that science contradicts?
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Maybe due to wanting a loving God to exist. Maybe because they feel something beautiful in a fragrance or melody and long to be part of it.
I’ve wrestled with faith since my atheistic childhood.
I appreciate your honest post.
-Vincent
Funny thing, there are no pictures of earth that are not cgi. And then there’s that Van Allen radiation belt problem…and the fact that gravity is a theory only, although it’s taught as fact. And the fact that every country on this earth honors a treaty that forbids independent exploration of Antartica…but even more interesting is the scientific documentary that disproved the “globe earth” theory. ( See ). So all in all…not sure anyone has “the facts”.
Wouldn’t accept the link for the documentary, but it’s under “Convex Earth, the documentary” https://youtu.be/McdMMmclGVc
Well said, science and theorys is not evidence neither is cgi images.
Viens visiter mon blog pour voir si c’est faux 🙂 https://cyprustar.wordpress.com
Par contre je confirme qu’il pleut bien par les nuages et non par le firmament 🙂
DJ, well said. In this article it states “science disproved” when really what is science? How about evidence. there’s not a lot of evidence to say we live on a globe just theorys. Dont believe everything you SEE or HEAR. Man lies, so I dont actually believe we know the true nature of earth.