Thanks, Alex. Good luck to you.

Commentary by Charles Fiott
Posted on: 3/11/2009 12:39 pm

Charles,
Thank you for your comments.Actually I enjoyed discussing with you.But as I have to attend some personal & family works and because of my present health conditions,I think I may not not be able to continue our discussion for
Gen.1:1,as it involves much time & energy.
But I look forward to continue in future.
But all I want to say to you personally is this:Don’t give up the attempt to seek the TRUTH with sincere heart & open mind.I hope you will find it.
Thank you.I pray for you.May the Lord richly bless you.

Commentary by Alex
Posted on: 3/11/2009 02:54 am

Alex, in that case please accept my apologies. You probably know more about measuring space distances than I do. I know they use a lot of Geometry, such as triangulations where the known distance betweeen two objects is used to measure distance from the third object. Of course, it’s much more complicated than that. My knowledge here is very limited and I used to be sceptical. But the space program has proved that it can be done quite accurately. After all Erathostenes was able to measure the circumference of Earth without ever leaving Egypt, so why shouldn’t we be able to measure space distances without leaving Earth? Amazing stuff!

Commentary by Charles Fiott
Posted on: 3/11/2009 01:14 am

Charles,
Thank you for the comments.Don’t mistake me.I studied Mechanical Engineering & got degree.Really I appreciate the good works done by the Astronomers.Lot of developments have been taken place in the area of Science & Astronomy since I have completed my study.Really I wanted to know the methods employed by the Astronomers to measure the distances of the stars.I collected some details regarding the numbers of stars,galaxies etc.As you are interested in Science & Astronomy ,I thought you may be having some updated details and so I asked for it.Thank you.

Commentary by Alex
Posted on: 3/10/2009 23:57 pm

Alex, I think you have misread post 7. I didn’t say that the Bible gives credit to the fact that the earth is round. My words were as follows: “I know that the world is round and that it has been around for millions of years longer than the Bible gives it credit for.” Perhaps I confused you by using the words “round” and “around” in the same sentence.

You also asked me for some “brief details” about the universe. I suspect your purpose may be to discredit the astronomical data we have today. Like doctors and archaeologists, astronomers are learning from day to day. They do not have all the answers, but they already know many things which the Biblical writers did NOT know. For example they know that there is a difference between a planet and a star, and this difference is in the magnitude of several million light years.

Science is the future. If we stick with the astronomers and challenge them (as we do when we send a specefract into space or when we ask them to predict where the next galaxy is likely to be found), our knowledge will continue to grow and someday - many, many generations from now - we may begin to understand the origin of the universe.

The Bible is the past. If we stick with the Bible and don’t challenge it, then…well… we will never grow. And we will never know.

Commentary by Charles Fiott
Posted on: 3/10/2009 20:00 pm

Charles,
You have mentioned that the Bible gives credit to the fact that the earth is round in Post#7.
Please refer post#46 for Genesis 1.
http://www.vbvbc.org/bible-verse/genesis1-1/
Charles,I’ve not made a detailed study in astronomy about the methods employed by astronomers to measure the distances of the stars & about the link between the distance of the stars with their age & life and relevant matters.With insufficient facts,I am not in a position to answer your question in the above post.I didn’t find enough time also to make a detailed study.Will you please give brief details on the following?
1)Details of numbers of stars in the visible universe.
2)Details of the distances of the farthest stars
3)Connection between the distances of the stars & their age &life.
4)Reliability of the methods of measurement of stars.
6)Have the distances of all the visible stars been measured?

Commentary by Alex
Posted on: 3/10/2009 06:06 am