[geocentrism] Re: Size of the universe
- From: "Dr. Neville Jones" <ntj005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:22:51 +0100 (BST)
I've just got back to this forum after a few days off.
I hope that you have all been exceedingly nice to one
another?! (I don't know what's going on with Philip's
thinly veiled comments regarding a certain funeral,
but hopefully I won't need to know.)
Nick, I answer your comments on the "Size of the
Physical Universe" paper as follows:
> 1. I read your quoted passages from Gen 7 about the
> Flood quited
> differently. It seems to read more clearly that God
> is saying in 7
> days, I'll cause the 40 days to begin. Then, after
> the 7 days, he both
> opened the windows of heaven and the fountains, with
> the result that
> immediately that day the flood waters were upon the
> earth. I don't see
> at all your reading that there is a 7 day lag during
> which the water
> traversed the universe to get to earth.
Although I accept your right to interpret these
Scriptures within your own understanding, I am quite
happy with the interpretation I explain in the paper.
> 2. Have you looked at an original Hebrew text and
> asked a Hebrew scholar
> to test your conclusion. This is a time when an
> english translation with
> punctuation and sentence structure might make a lot
> of difference to so
> fine a point.
I have investigated the original Hebrew words, via the
King James, Strong's concordance and BDBG. I have no
access to a classical Hebrew scholar, although I
usually ask Amnon to explain certain aspects of that
language to me.
> 3. At the beginning of the paper you conclude that
> it follows from
> Scripture that it will always be impossible for us
> to actually measure
> the size of the physical universe, but then you go
> on to do exactly that
> and conclude with far more than an estimate. 94,000
> kilometers is
> pretty precise measure. So, aren't you
> contradicting Scripture.
No, I do not accept your point. I am estimating the
size, based upon certain assumptions (that I make
clear). Measuring the size is different, for that
would be definitive and would contain no assumptions.
Scripture is thus maintained (as, of course, it would
be), but I can still get an approximate size for the
universe within the confines of the assumptions that I
make.
Neville.
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