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Are solar eclipses proof that God exists?
Are solar eclipses proof that God exists?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/20/are-solar-eclipses-proof-god.html
[No I don't think it does. The author of this brings up some interesting facts and comes to the conclusion that a divine being had to have planned it. Personally I have come to a different conclusion but his facts are well researched and interesting. What do you think of his arguments?]
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8/21/2017, 9:47 am
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Re: Are solar eclipses proof that God exists?
Does this sound like a Rigby argument:
Of course what this all meant was simply that these immemorially ancient and vast objects [the sun and the moon], though as different in size as a single BB and a super gigantic beach ball — one that was over six feet in diameter — would from our perspective here on Earth seem almost precisely the same size. So if they ever just happened to align in the sky, they would match up perfectly. Not almost perfectly. But perfectly, and bizarrely so. …
Imagine holding a BB twelve inches from our face and then asking a friend to carry the six-foot diameter beach ball as far down the beach as necessary — until it appeared precisely the same size from our perspective as the tiny BB. Keep in mind our beach ball is six-feet in diameter while a normal large beach ball is less than two feet in diameter. Our friend would have to hike 400 feet before the giant beach ball and the tiny BB matched up in size. That’s about the distance from home plate to the centerfield fence in most major league baseball stadiums.
So can the sun’s and moon’s diameters — and distances from Earth — be merely coincidentally matched up this perfectly? Everything about it makes that seem ridiculous. But of course you can decide for yourself.
I've thought this over, and what it proves to me is that baseball stadiums were designed by God.
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Re: Are solar eclipses proof that God exists?
Just a natural action of two celestial bodies to me.
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8/21/2017, 10:58 am
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