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Originally Posted by Hatchet Haro
Never mind about the italics. Just realized that quotes are by default in italics. Sorry about that.
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That's OK. I did attend school from time to time. The phlogiston theory of combustion was included, together with all sorts of other stuff that was not current at the time, nor had been for several centuries in some cases.
The spontaneous generation of flies was another one.
These were examples of how science "developed"
but the point which struck me, that none of their theories lasted for more than a few decades without being refuted, was never mentioned. The Bible does not offer theories. God explains the world He has made in plain language. It's very easy to understand. Scientific theories do not use plain language.
I believe there is a reason.
When simple principles, such as the interest payable on a term deposit, are dressed up in pages of legalese we become suspicious.
You'll get 10% is pretty straightforward.
Whereas it is agreed between ................................ [herein after referred to as the depositor] and Lunar Deposits (incorporated on the Moon) Inc that notwithstanding any of the circumstances detailed in schedules I IV IX XIIa and D and insofar as the depositer agrees to and complies with the conditions set out in subsections 9(a) 9(b) 9(c)(i) and 20(b)(iii) and subject to the provisions of etc. etc.
is not.
In the second case you'd know you were dealing with Alexander McShonk however snazzy his loafers and I find it is just like that with secularist science. Never twice the same theory. It was explained how Einstein absolutely debunked the Newtonian stance but also explained how in certain special circumstances the earlier theory might appear to add up (sort of) just as in certain circumstances it might appear that the phlogiston theory was correct or that flies spontaneously generate in custard.
Once I started following God's Instruction Manual however the maelstrom in my heart was calmed and where there had only been turbulance and uncertainty came equanimity and delight.
Whatever you have in your textbooks now I can guarantee will not be there in 100 years time. That is not evidence (it is in fact an irrelevant appeal).