On 11/11/11 4:10 AM, oriel36 wrote:
Before people make a casual conclusion about Genesis or any other work
of the Bible,they would do well to remember that we bring to these
things our own prejudices and strengths and far from criticizing those
who simply see nothing in Christ or Christianity or something childish
or worse,they are simply expressing the standard by which they judge
all things including scientific affairs.It is therefore not defending
Genesis for its doesn't need defending as the religious can actually
appreciate Genesis more with the availability of information today and
those facets which would have appeared less radiant a few centuries
ago now stand out clearly as mathematical masterpieces woven around a
surface narrative.

AS Galileo pointed out some 400 years ago, the Christan bible is
not about how the heavens go, but how to go to heaven. If you want
fundamentals about celestial astronomy, than Isaac Newton and those
that followed.