{"id":2048,"date":"2013-04-22T06:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2013-04-22T06:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:42:55","slug":"biblical-science-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/04\/22\/biblical-science-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical science in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a relative who didn&#8217;t make it past eighth grade. He was a bright man, hard worker, very religious. To make up for his lack of education, he prided himself on being a &#8220;biblical scholar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d spend hours poring over his Bible, graphing events and calculating the days until Jesus returned. I remember, as a child, accidentally finding him in the bathroom, sitting on the throne, huge Bible draped over his bare knees. (Sorry for the visual.)<\/p>\n<p>It made me wonder what other &#8220;profession&#8221; could afford someone with no real education, the pride of becoming a &#8220;scholar?&#8221; Imagine how good it must feel to only have to master one book, one you can study your whole life, plus you can even reclaim time you&#8217;d otherwise &#8220;waste&#8221; while in the bathroom?<\/p>\n<p>I figure this is the kind of &#8220;scholar&#8221; David Lowe is. Using his GeoCities website, Lowe has concluded that our sun is not a star.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all the proof he needs is found right in the Bible.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>The goal of this paper is to prove, using only the Bible, that the Sun is NOT a star.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\"> There are four major reasons from the Bible why I believe the Sun is not a star, and therefore the assumptions made about stars, their creation, their life, their death, their burn rate, the composition &#8211; basically every assumption we make about stars &#8211; are faulty. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">These faulty assumptions completely throw into doubt the theory of the evolution of the universe and the big bang theory<\/span><\/strong>. In this paper I will show:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\">the Sun and stars had <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">DIFFERENT BEGINNINGS<\/span><\/strong> in the creation story.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\">the Sun and stars have <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">DIFFERENT PROPHETIC ENDINGS.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\">the Sun and stars are ALWAYS referred to separately in scripture, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\">the Sun and stars have <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">DIFFERENT PROPHETIC ENDINGS.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s really all you need to read to understand where this guy is coming from. Just read your Bible, folks. Don&#8217;t take into account any current knowledge because those Bronze Age goat herders were all over what constituted reality.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link only of you have access to alcohol. Consider yourself warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/rebornempowered\/thesun.htm\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.com\">Pharyngula<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have a relative who didn&#8217;t make it past eighth grade. 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