Nick:  The DOMINICan order of monks were the ones who were mainly responsible for torture in the Inquisition.

I am not sure how this relates

Ah… the good old inquisition, when faithful God-fearing followers of Christ – who would never tell lies or do anything evil or dishonest – tortured and killed millions of other God-fearing followers of Ch…[Read more]

T8:  Mike. To say the Earth is flat is to deny all the evidence that the earth is a globe.

Yeah, we’re still trying to get to all that evidence, because as of now, there hasn’t been a single piece produced on this thread that we could individually verify.  On the other hand, we can verify that Chicago can be seen from Michigan, when it should be 2…[Read more]

T8:  Flat Earthers, this video explains a lot of your questions about why we can’t easily see the whole Earth and explains the view the ISS gets.

I’m sorry… which questions have we asked about that?  Now if you were to get a million miles away, you could see the entire earth.  In fact, NASA has done just that.…[Read more]

T8:  I guess you should equally deny that because we do not have powerful enough instruments to see atoms and electrons. Are these all fake too?

Is that really what you think I’ve done, T8?  Do you seriously think my understanding is based on, “I can’t see a planet up close, therefore the whole heliocentric model is false and the earth is flat”?

D4T:  Mike, nice shot of Jupiter! I had my telescope out a week ago and saw a great shot of it as well! It’s amazing what you can do with the P-900!

Thanks.  Are you able to record photos and images from your telescope?  If so please share some of them.  Yeah, I’m very happy with the P900.  I’ve been having fun, and have some experiments planned…[Read more]

T8: I once saw Saturn and her rings through a decent telescope…

Cool.  Could you tell it was a spherical planet?  Or did it just look like a circular light – like my video of Jupiter?  Because I know for a fact it didn’t look anything like NASA’s paintings of Saturn.  🙂

942767:  21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwe…

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D4T:  Not off topic at all, since the subject of flat earth encompasses centuries of deceptions all linked together, including big bang, accretion theory, abiogenesis, common descent, and fossils that are supposedly millions and billions of years old.  And yes, original soft biological tissue being found in fossils that are claimed to be up to 5…

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T8:  If people stubbornly refuse science by stating that the Bible doesn’t agree, then all that will happen is people will abandon the Bible or science. …I do not see any discrepancies with actual scientific data vs the Bible…

Fantastic, because science hasn’t ever once conflicted with scripture. Certain flawed men’s interpretations of sci…[Read more]

Double posted.

Nick: “I believe what is written. But I am equally sure that your idea of a firmament is not what He meant.”

D4T: Great. Since you believe in a firmament also maybe you have an idea of the height and thickness.

I don’t recall giving any descriptions of the firmament so I’m not sure how you could have anything to base your opinion that I’m wron…

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T8:  I’m sure heaps of people have done it. Just that you wouldn’t get famous for doing it because it is a mere extra step in an experiment that is famous.

What are you talking about?  The “famous” experiment couldn’t determine the shape of the earth one way or the other.  Don’t you think the third shadow experiment – the one that COULD actuall…[Read more]

David:  Hey all.  I’ve been gone for a year or so.  I was on the international space station, helping canadarm2 to get up and running.  What have I missed?

Oh wow, mike is back too.  Who are the current moderators?  Man, my legs are still acting weird.  Really really need to rebuild some muscles.

Hey David… too funny man!  That zero G really p…[Read more]

Nick:  Hi Mike,

A close firmament?

How close is the firmament and how thick is it?

Sorry dude.  You have used up the allotted number of questions you are allowed to ask me without answering one of mine.  When you tell me what reason you have for assuming the pillars of the earth are not real pillars supporting the earth, I will answer a que…[Read more]

Ed:  Hi Mike,

One well two wells three wells all the same.

The sunlight coming through the clouds at different angles suggests a much closer sun

And that is the bottom line for me, Ed.  There is no reason today to think the sun is millions of miles away, and therefore no reason for Eratosthenes to imagine it was 500,000 miles away in 250 BC, wh…[Read more]

Kathi:  Can it be possible that the Light of God that pierced the darkness was the Son of God, the Firstborn of all creation?

Rev 21:23 And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Rev 22:5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of…

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Anthony:  The term ‘heaven’ in Genesis 1:8 is shamyima and is the same Hebrew word used in Genesis 1:1 for ‘heaven’ but whereas in the first verse the word is in the plural form, in verse 8 it is in the singular form…

Maybe that scholar I mentioned to T8 earlier was on to something.  The plural could indicated the whole shebang, while the si…[Read more]

Andrew:  Ham is very much a young earth creationist, biblical literalist,even going so far as to teach there were dinosaurs aboard Noah’s ark, but apparently not literalist enough to accept geocentrism or the flat earth.

He is doing great work in his own right.  Perhaps he’ll get there soon.  We’ll all get there eventually.

 

Andrew: The astro…

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Gene:  To all…..Here is a literial Hebrew translation of Gen1:1-5, by a Hedrew scholar (Jeff Benner)

Gen 1:1–in the summit “Elohiym (powers) fattened the sky (heavens)and the land
Gen 1:2–and the land had existed in confusion and was unfilled and darkness was upon the face of the deep sea and the wind of “Elohiym (powers) was much fluttering…

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Anthony:  …we should read Genesis as the straightforward history that it appears to be… It does not tell us whether the stars existed before verse 16, or whether they simply became visible.

Your red words don’t align with your blue ones.  God “made” the stars on day four… not “caused already existing stars to become visible” on day f…[Read more]