Re: Creation Theory-7
- From: Harlequin <usenet@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:31:41 GMT
Mark VandeWettering <wettering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:slrndi9sge.1o7d.wettering@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> On 2005-09-12, Zoe <muze10@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Continuing with MY perspective on creation theory....(note the "my",
>> Harlequin).
>>
>> Exhibit A for the conclusion that life was created in six days: the
>> seven-day week.
>>
>> The year is based on the movement of the earth around the sun. The
>> month is based on the movement of the moon around the earth. But
>> what is the week based on? It is an arbitrary time measurement,
>> connected to no physical or astronomical movements in the universe.
>>
>> There is no person or group of people on earth powerful enough to
>> mandate that the weekly cycle be observed, yet the whole world lives
>> by this cycle, without questioning why they do.
>>
>> There is only one place that authoritatively gives the history of how
>> the week came to be. And that source ties our present weekly cycle
>> to the creation of the earth. The existence of the one (the week)
>> validates the explanation of the other (the history of creation).
>>
>> I expect this particular thread to be short since the above
>> statements are not meant to be an argument but simply a sharing of
>> one of my reasons for the conclusions I have drawn about why we
>> exist.
>>
>> In furtherance of better understanding between us....
>
> Oh dear.
>
> Ancient Babylonians had a seven day week because each day was named
> after a celestial body (sun, moon, and five visible planets), a trend
> that we have continued in our SUNday, MOONday, ....
>
> 7 days is also very close to 1/4 of a lunar month.
And to sum up and expand what others have already said.
The Babylonians gave it to the Jews who gave it to the Christians
whose culture eventually had most of the world under their political
control.
The Babylonians gave it to the Persians who eventually had a large
empire. One poster said that the Roman Empire got its seven day week
from Persia.
The Jews and Christians also influenced Islam which in its very early
history created an empire even larger than Rome had though it broke up
fairly quickly. Still the influence of Islamic states was considerable
in the time before European colonialism.
In any event in today's world the two largest religions (Christianity
and Islam) have seven-day weeks. And the economic and political power
of Western Europe and the United States pretty much dictates it to the
rest of the world. Just look how the entire world has adopted the
Christian Calendar for all practical purposes. The entire world can
tell you the date for that calendar. I bet you can't tell me the
date via the Islamic calendar without looking. That calendar is
now consigned to telling Moslems when to do various religious
observances.
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-- Percival Lowell, _Mars as the Abode of Life_.
1908. pp. 153-154.
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