Why Seven?

Tell me theists, why do you think there are seven days in a week?

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Tell me theists, why do you think there are seven days in a week?

Because it is roughly one-quarter of a lunar month?




(In before the literalist crowd comes to make fools of themselves.)

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Tell me theists, why do you think there are seven days in a week?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/444/why-are-there-seven-days-in-a-week

Originally posted by Suzianne
Because it is roughly one-quarter of a lunar month?




(In before the literalist crowd comes to make fools of themselves.)

29.5/7...

Nope.

Here's an interesting article about it, nonetheless:

http://www.economist.com/node/895542

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
29.5/7...

Nope.

Here's an interesting article about it, nonetheless:

http://www.economist.com/node/895542

Got a closer integer than 7 ???

But also the year almost divides by 7.

The Solitaire Mystery has some interesting ideas on a new calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solitaire_Mystery

I like the idea of 7 days to a week, 4 weeks to a month, 13 months to a year and a spare day off (or 2) for celebrating! You could use the same calendars each year and work schedules etc would be so much simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Tell me theists, why do you think there are seven days in a week?

The natural markers of time (solar, lunar) and their subdivisions are evidence against intelligent design, put in place of the original intelligent (rational) design by Satan, to deceive us into doubting intelligent design.

This should be a serviceable theistic response, if you are still looking.

Originally posted by JS357
The natural markers of time (solar, lunar) and their subdivisions are evidence against intelligent design, put in place of the original intelligent (rational) design by Satan, to deceive us into doubting intelligent design.

This should be a serviceable theistic response, if you are still looking.

So you are saying that evidence against Intelligent Design is actually evidence for Intelligent Design?
That's GENIUS!

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Got a closer integer than 7 ???

But also the year almost divides by 7.

The Solitaire Mystery has some interesting ideas on a new calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solitaire_Mystery

I like the idea of 7 days to a week, 4 weeks to a month, 13 months to a year and a spare day off (or 2) for celebrating! You could use the same calendars e ...[text shortened]... dules etc would be so much simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

I would so totally buy into this.

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Tell me theists, why do you think there are seven days in a week?

Because God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. The commemoration of this event every 7th day has become know as a week in time. There are exactly 20871 weeks in 400 Gregorian years.

The Instructor

Originally posted by Suzianne
Because it is roughly one-quarter of a lunar month?
(In before the literalist crowd comes to make fools of themselves.)

Here he is!

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Tell me theists, why do you think there are seven days in a week?

I'm not sure but I thought around Ceasars time they ceased to have 13 months and opted for 12 for reasons unknown to me.

If there were 13months, the significance of 7 would be more clearer ( just following on from wolfie )

You have to be a grade A moron to believe that God created the earth and everything in it in 7 days.

Originally posted by Trev33
You have to be a grade A moron to believe that God created the earth and everything in it in 7 days.

That's me - grade A. Actually it was only 6 days not counting the rest day.

The Instructor