12-11-2006, 01:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2006, 01:23 PM by Curious Christian.)
By the way Wel Mel...why do you put so much stock in this embryo stuff (which is proven to be old knowledge) and ignore facts such as this from the Old Testament?
Hydrothermal vents are described in two books of the Bible written before 1400BC—more than 3,000 years before their discovery by science.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Job 38:16
Have you entered the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in search of the depths?
Now...it is a fact that the Bible in two books written by two different authors describes something which science didn't know about until 1977 when the first Hyrothermal vent was discovered. No other text about Hydrotermal vents predate the Book of Genesis or Job.
I am a Christian, as my name says. However, it is not because the bible accurately described something which was impossible to know. In other words...I don't go around all the time pointing to this (as Muslims point to the embryo) and expect people to convert!
In fact this Muslim anti-Christian site http://www.answering-christianity.com/or...f_life.htm talks about Thermal vents about half way down the page and it says that they weren't discovered until the mid 70s...but it makes NO MENTION that the bible described them over a thousand years before!