Ecclesiastes
Introduction

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Good Stuff
Contradictions
Science and History
Women
Absurdities
Interpretation

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Science and Nature in Ecclesiastes

1. "The sun also ariseth"
   Although this verse is interpreted figuratively today, it was taken literally by virtually all Christians until the Copernican revolution, and was used by the Church to condemn Galileo for teaching the heliocentric heresy. 1:5

2. "The place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again."
   Good description of the water cycle. 1:7
3. "He hath made every thing beautiful."
   Everything is beautiful in its own way. Parasitic worms, cancer cells, bubonic plague. You just have to look at it from God's eyes. 3:11

4. "No man can find out the work that God maketh."
   Science is impossible. We can learn nothing at all about the natural world. 3:11