Why no mention of extrasolar planets, other galaxies, black holes,
etc. in any religious text?
Not exact matches
I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship
in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of
religious texts driven by context, the literary genre,
etc..
But they don't leave it there — they want to set laws based upon their
religious beliefs, set school curricula based upon their
religious beliefs, have their
religious prayers
in public meetings, put their
religious texts on public buildings,
etc..
Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians
in the USA at least want to impose their religion on the rest of us despite the First Amendment: biblical
texts on public buildings, their god on the currency, their
religious beliefs to be law, christian prayer at public events,
etc..
in the public domain, then I'm sure you are o.k. with the Muslim's putting up their *) everywhere they want, and the Jews putting up their «star of david» and the Buddhists, putting Buddha everywhere, and the Hindu's putting up all of their gods, and goddesses, along with all the rest of the religions of the world and their
religious imagery / symbols /
texts,
etc...