Atheist Shermer: The Bible's Wrong. The Sun is NOT a Light!

About this sermon

Michael Shermer (Skeptics Society, Scientific American) was asked on Real Science Radio by Bob Enyart to affirm that the Bible was correct at least when it contradicted much of the ancient world which was worshipping the Sun, Moon, and stars by saying that they are lights, and not gods, so don't worship them. So to talk with atheists, his answer is what what you've got to put up with. See more at https://rsr.org/atheists and https://rsr.org/debates. And here's the transcript of the funny part: Enyart: "Much of the ancient world was wrong, thinking that the sun and the moon were gods, and the Bible was right, at least in this minor point, that they're for lights." Shermer: "No, I don't think so." Enyart: "I'm surprised that you won't concede this, that at least on this minor point, that the cosmology of the Bible is right, that they're not gods, they're lights." Shermer: "Yeah, but that's not a correct cosmology, it's just a different interpretation." Enyart: "What's incorrect about saying, 'They're not gods, the sun is a light, it's not a god.' What's incorrect about that?" Shermer: "They're not lights!" Enyart: "Oh, the sun is not a light?" Shermer: "No."

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