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The real question is why would God use the English translation?

Also, in the Old Testament, the Hebrew word Sheol is translated as hell in the KJV, but it is also translated as grave or pit. Hell is used when referencing a wicked person, and grave is used when referencing a righteous person, thereby avoiding confusion for the reader.

No, the judge was protecting the right of the teacher to be able to express her opinion. For your statement to be true the judge would have to be imposing to the transgender student that he cannot hold his own opinion about his own gender. An activist judge is one that rules that one or the...

Actually, it can be both at the same time, even for us. (My algebra teacher taught me to show my work, so here goes.) Using this standard relativity formula: We can make these calculations. 1.) 1000 years = 365,240 days. (Rounded for whole leap years) Therefore t = 1 day and t(o) = 365,240...

Because fornication leads to adultery. You've committed to a partner through sex, and regardless of what you've agreed to between yourselves, the act always leads always leads to different levels of emotional feelings between each other. You may have agreed to uncommitted sex, but many times the...

Well, I would say to look at the potential downsides of fornication. I'm going to ignore STDs entirely, because good people get horrific diseases as well, even though this one is avoidable (except maybe for rape): 1.) Sex with another person's spouse. It is quite apparent in history that this...

The water to wine story is not an example of time dilation, and none of the miracles in the Bible have a relativistic answer to them. The possible exceptions are Psalm 90:4/2 Peter 3:8 which might be a frame of reference analogy, the creation story in Genesis 1, and Joshua's battle in Joshua...

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You're ignorant if you don't think that you need both. If one side is always hot, and other side is always cold, then there is only one season on the hot side and one season on the cold side. It's not too hard to figure out.

So what? It's still artificial like I said. There's no technical reason why we have to use 24 hours instead of any other number and no technical reason why we have 4 seasons and not 2 or 6 or 12. The weather in February is always different than March, even though they're both part of a season...

Genesis doesn't try to be a scientific document. It's a story to explain the origin of earth in a very simplistic way, so it can be told to people regardless of their experience level. Much is omitted from the details. God left it to people who might later want to learn more on their own to...

Irrelevant. My point was that dividing the day into 24 hours is arbitrary, just like 10 would be. It could easily be some other division, but that what someone invented and now everyone does it that way, because that is what they learned. In the same way, people arbitrarily picked 4 seasons and...

I don't understand how that relates to what I said. The 10 hour day would be just as accurate. The hour would just be 2.4x longer. The earth's tilt does not create seasons either. Without a heat source like the sun, the earth is just a frozen ball in space. You need a partnership of the two to...

Genetic similarity makes if more likely that they had a common ancestor, but it isn't proof of that, and the closer the similarity, the more likely for it to still be considered reproducing after it's kind as per Genesis. No it is not. The question is whether what we call a different species...

Ah, but the evidence is not absolute. You cannot prove how one species changed to another when you only have the fossilized remains of one in perhaps several million subjects. I realize that this is also a limitation on the intelligent design viewpoint as well, because you cannot prove that you...

Yes, hours and minutes and seconds are artificial delineations as well. There's no reason why we couldn't rework a day to a metric like system where there is 10 hours in a day, composed of 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. A second would then be 86.4% as long as a current second...

I was using an example to explain the difference between macro and micro-evolution. I was not attempting to determine the exact line in the sand. As for the flood, that seems to me to be a different discussion for a different thread. Pursuing that line of debate will overload this thread.

Since it was written from the Christian point of view, believe seemed more appropriate in my post. If it was written for a science paper, maybe I'd have used postulate, theorize, or posit.

Here is the answer that I don't see posted yet. Why can't micro-evolution lead to macro-evolution? Because Christians believe that the phrase "after their kind" in Genesis 1:12, 21, 24 excludes the possibility of macro-evolution. The exception are theistic evolutionists who gloss over that...

Also very similar to the idea that nobody has seen God, so God must not exist.