Re: Source Code for OS?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> In article <3A824578.E82EDA18@inetnebr.com>,
> Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> > While this is true, it still doesn't deal with what the Bible says about
> > itself, which is that it is the very word of God written. In fact, the
> > phrase "word of God" is used by Jesus many times in reference to the Bible.
>
> There is one serious problem with assuming that the Bible literally
> is the "word of God" though: as the Bible is written, it is as if it
> was written by people a long time ago, to the best of their
> understanding and abilities.  But one could really expect an
> omnipotent and all-wise God to be able to do much better than that!
> For instance by adding some paragraphs which were gibberish to people
> of old times but which later turned out to agree well with e.g.
> scientific progress.

Then it wouldn't be useful to the original audience. The perspective used in the
Bible is that of observation from the surface of the earth. Now, the ancient
Egyptians and Babylonians had a similar perspective, and yet still accomplished a
lot.

> E.g. things about the vastness of space, our
> solar system being only a tiny tiny part of it -- etc etc.  But no,
> the cosmology, as described in Genesis, agrees well with the
> medieveal geocentric universe

That's interesting... something written between 1400 B.C. and 100 A.D. that
agrees perfectly with the "science" of 1300 years later. More about this in a
moment.

> which consisted of our solar system and
> little else, so well that astronomical discoveries of Galileo's time
> was banned by the Church because they were perceived as contradicting
> the Bible....

The problem, as you should know, wasn't the Bible, but that the church of Rome
had accepted the cosmology of Aristotle, and had promoted that as accepted church
dogma, and wasn't willing to admit that they had been wrong. Something very
similar had happened in another field at about the same time... I suggest you
read up on Martin Luther.

Roy