Scientific explanations for creation

"God hangs the earth on nothing" (Job 26:7)

It doesn't "hang" anywhere. Our lump of rock is chasing its sun, which is on its own orbit, within a universe that is itself, in a small orbit, which is part of a larger orbit, within a larger orbit, ad infinitum.

Estimated speed of our Earth is 66600 mph, which, ironically, is the fabled number of the beast.

Setanta said: [the bible] can hardly be source of wisfom or guidance when it doesn't even know the world is round.

Brandon9000 wrote:

. . . without a particle of evidence to suggest that any of it is true."

If you expect epistemological certainty, it ain't gonna happen.

Naik was denied entry into the United Kingdom and Canada in June 2010.He was banned from entering the UK by Home Secretary Theresa May after arranging to give talks in London and Sheffield. May said of the exclusion order, "Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his unacceptable behaviour".Naik argued that the Home Secretary was making a political decision and not a legal one, and his lawyer said the decision was "barbaric and inhuman". He also claimed that his comments were taken out of context. Film producer Mahesh Bhatt supported Naik, saying the ban constituted an attack on freedom of speech. It was reported that Naik would attempt to challenge the ruling in the High Court. His application for judicial review was dismissed on 5 November 2010. Naik was forbidden from entering Canada after Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, warned MPs of Naik's views.

In a lecture delivered on 31 July 2008 on Peace TV, Naik commented on the attacks of 11 September: "it is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself".

. . . without a particle of evidence to suggest that any of it is true."

If you expect epistemological certainty, it ain't gonna happen.

I expect some evidence of some kind, or else why would I believe a claim that something is true? We are dealing with two theories of the nature of the universe. If you're not going to accept the physics explanation because you argue that some little bit of the centuries of physics isn't solid, then, by the same standard, you would throw the Bible out the window, since there isn't a trace of evidence that any of it is so.

He draws up the drops of water; They condense into rain from his mist; 28 Then the clouds pour it down; They shower down upon mankind. (Job 36 27:28) about 1600 BC

For just as the rain and the snow pour down from heaven And do not return there until they saturate the earth, making it produce and sprout. . . (Isaiah 55:10) about 700 BC

. . . where the Bible makes statements that touch on the scientific, it has not been misleading . . .

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Bible quote: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Setanta said: The only way that the sun could "stand still" would be if the earth stopped spinning on its axis

There is zero evidence for a world-wide flood having occurred.

Not only is there no evidence for the claim in Joshua, Chapter ten, it is a physical impossibility. In the King James Version, verse 13:

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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. . .

The only way that the sun could "stand still" would be if the earth stopped spinning on its axis. . .

. . .where the Bible makes statements that touch on the scientific, it has not been misleading . . .