Bob is not reticent about making whatever changes he needs to in his “scientific” knowledge to keep it in support of the Bible. Specifically, during his show on Feb 11, 2002 (BEL029 – titled “Bob calls the Judge”), Bob is discussing Biblical evidence for the existence of God. His caller, Jim, has just made mention of Job talking about what he believes to be dinosaurs. Bob takes this reference to the book of Job as an opening to bring up another issue. Starting at 50:15 into the show, the following dialogue occurs:
It appears that in the 2 years since that show, Bob was informed that he was simply wrong. In fact, the three stars that form the belt of Orion are vast distances from each other, much too far to even minutely affect each other gravitationally. Does that stop Bob – heck no. Just like a stacked deck, just reinterpret what God said in the Bible. In Battle Royale VII, Here is what Bob said about the Belt of Orion:
Bob is a master at adopting whatever his current belief of since says and making it fit his theology. If he lived for another century or so, he would be preaching how the bible predicted evolution all along.
Bob is pretty impressed by the fact that the Bible specifically talks of both the Pleiades and the Belt of Orion, and how these are the only two constellations that are gravitationally bound.(BE): Jim, let me give you one quote out of the Book of Job. Did you just recently read Job?
(Jim): Yeah, I just got done last night.
(BE): Well 2 chapters before the dinosaur part is Job 38:31. You might want to take a look at that, because - you known the constellations that we see in the sky? The many constellations that are up there - they go back, they are ancient. The ancient ones – there are dozens of them, and they have pictures that go back to antiquity.
And Job mentions some of them, and
(Jim): (unintelligible)
(BE): Say again - the belt of Orion, and the Pleiades, and of all the constellations, about 80-some constellations up there, that are ancient, scientists today, astronomers tell us only 2 of them are gravitationally bound. And I know you know what that means, but let me explain it to any public school teachers listening. Just like the earth is gravitationally bound to the sun, we are pulling on one another, so the earth can’t get away.
Well the constellations, 2 of the 80-some constellations are gravitationally bound – the Pleiades, and the belt of Orion. Where those stars are locked – they are holding one another in place. And Job 38:31, God asks this question to prove how great he is, and how small man is, God says: “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion?”
What about a statement! Talk about - only 2 out of 80 constellations are gravitationally bound, and here is the oldest book in Bible, surely they couldn’t have known that by any of man’s abilities, but God created the universe, and our galaxy, and he knows the Pleiades, and Orion’s belt, because he made it, and he knew that of all the constellations, those were the two that are gravitationally bound. So he says can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion?
It appears that in the 2 years since that show, Bob was informed that he was simply wrong. In fact, the three stars that form the belt of Orion are vast distances from each other, much too far to even minutely affect each other gravitationally. Does that stop Bob – heck no. Just like a stacked deck, just reinterpret what God said in the Bible. In Battle Royale VII, Here is what Bob said about the Belt of Orion:
Amazing that in two years, the incredible proof of the Bible arising from Job mentioning the only two constellation that are gravitationally bound morphs into the Belt of Orion actually flying apart. And he is carefully silent on the fact that “flying apart” is the norm for constellations, not just the belt of Orion.The Pleiades and Orion: The Bible begins with Genesis, since that book tells about the Creation, but the first book actually written was Job. And in the book of Job, God talks to him, and reveals Himself as God planting astronomy evidence then into ancient history which has become especially compelling today, nearly 4,000 years later. In the dialogue of this ancient book, God asked Job:
“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion?” Job 38:31
Not until millennia later could modern astrophysicists confirm the fascinating knowledge presented by this verse, which was designed to humble Job before the Creator. For the stars of the Pleiades are gravitationally bound together, “bind[ing] the cluster,” and the stars of Orion’s belt are speeding away from each other, “loose[ning] the belt.” Before we had light spectrometers, radio-telescopes, or the orbiting Hubble, we had the Bible. And in its oldest book, back when men had no advanced technology to interpret data in starlight, the Bible quotes God somehow accurately stating that the stars of the Pleiades are bound together, as they are, gravitationally bound, and that the stars of Orion’s belt are loosed, as they are moving apart and eventually, would completely undo “the belt” from Earth’s perspective. What are the possibilities that of all the stars visible to the naked eye, of all the ancient constellations, of all the infinite number of ways to describe a picture in the sky, that Job would make an astonishingly accurate scientific statement?
Bob is a master at adopting whatever his current belief of since says and making it fit his theology. If he lived for another century or so, he would be preaching how the bible predicted evolution all along.
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