I have often marveled that I swallow with eagerness and ease so much that science proclaims but am finding it so difficult to swallow when it comes to the age of the earth and evolution.
To address this, let me return to something @Mervin_Bitikofer wrote early in this thread:
As I told him in our exchange, I have asked myself this many times. It has not been a blind spot in my thinking. I have pondered it repeatedly. But it occurs to me now that I could be even more vigorous in asking this of myself. Here’s the vigor I propose: that I would review all the biblical objections made in the past to the scientific facts I so blithely accept today as not conflicting with the Bible.
The scientific facts without biblical obstacles of which I am speaking are those I’ve stated colloquially as:
I do not feel the need for biblical warrant to believe that we are all flying through space on a ball spinning at 1,000 mph, revolving around the sun at 66,000 mph, and flying together with it through the Milky Way at 432,000 mph without windburn or even chapped lips…and the reason is because I see no biblical obstacle to believing scientists when they tell me such things.
Had I lived in the time that these scientific facts were first being established, however, would I have seen biblical obstacles to them that I do not see now? As I say, I’ve asked and answered this question of myself numerous times. However, I’d like to re-ask it of myself in the most rigorous way possible. To do that, I need an exhaustive list (if one exists) of biblical objections made to the scientific facts underlying my colloquial statement above at the time scientists were seeking to make known those underlying facts. Does anyone know if such an exhaustive list exists and, if so, where I might find it?