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CuriousLord -> RE: One Third of Americans Say Bible is Literally True (5/25/2007 4:07:33 PM)
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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord
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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord (edited a lot)
Later, when you consider the nature of reality, you find that science and religion conflict. Many, many times, religion's adapted, trying to make these conflicts go away by yielding its own nature- trying to evolve to avoid people realizing it's untrue. But, in the end, it conflicts with things that have been found scientifically, and is thus anti-scientific.
This paragraph is simply not true. Unless you take the Bible as being literally true.
Just to point out how easy it is to misinterpret scientific truth the definition of a day , in the bit of your post I edited out , is inaccurate.he he he he, Oh yes it is !
I'm sorry, but with me, you're going to have to cite a reason you believe something to be untrue.. just randomly saying it doesn't make it so.
If you meant one revolution of the Earth equals one day, then...deep breaths now....
As it rotates on its own axis the earth rotates in an approximate circle around the Sun. Looking down on the Earth on to the Earth's North Pole you would see a point on the surface moving left to right at the same time as the Earth moved left around the Sun Phew, therefore for the Sun to be in the same position in the sky at the same time as yesterday ie one day later lol the Earth would have to rotate slightly more than once. That is the reason for the need for leap years.
Alright.. this is sort of sad..
A: None of this makes your point.
B: This isn't even accurate.. because..
1. A day is the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate once.
2. A year is the amount of time it takes for the Earth to travel around the sun once.
3. The Earth rotates about 365.2(4) times per year.
i. Therefore, by definition, there are about 365 days in a year.
ii. Since you can't really make ~0.2(4) days as part of a year, since that'll mean New Years will fall at different times each year from the last, people summed it up for every four years (so 4 * ~0.2(4) ~ 0.9(6)), effectively adding the extra parts of a day to every fourth year, making that year one day longer.
iii. This system isn't perfect. Somewhere down the road, there's going to have to be a 5-year break between leap years, or other fix.
Edit: PS- And none of this actually has to do with faith in any way, shape, or form. =/
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