of misunderstood words. And I mean from both, the so called ‘scientific’ and laypersons view point.
It seems to me that the ‘scientific’ community considers the writing in the Bible as being too old and having too many inconsistencies to be a worth while study, and the ‘believers’ in the lay community consider the writings as the absolute truth.
I would like to point out to both sides that they have come to erroneous conclusions on the subject.
As an example consider the ‘scientific’ view of how the words “heaven” and “earth” are written in the genesis area of the Bible, they do not have capital letters in the beginning of those words. In my limited understanding of the English language, I take this to mean that the intended meaning of the words is not directed to a specific place such as the planet Earth or a place called a Heaven but rather a universal quality of the places.

The word that the scientists use today to indicate the universal quality of Earth as well as all other planets and stars is the word “mass”. So in my opinion, the word “earth” in the Bible is equivalent to the modern word “mass”.

The opposite quality of mass in modern words is the word “space”, mass has ‘density’ space does not. Again in my opinion, the Biblical word “heaven” is the modern word “space”.

So I would interpret the writing in the Bible as meaning that, in the beginning of the universe a creator “God” created the “space” and “mass” and the mass was distributed evenly throughout the space, and that condition is known as “void”.

So to Rhonda I would say that according to this interpretation, life could be anywhere in the universe.

To the scientists there I would say that, do not dismiss information that may seem arcaic at first glance.

Cheers
Johannes