Phizzy: Can someone sum this long cut and paste up for us in a few words please ?? assuming you have the time and patience so to do.
I havn't! But I will observe that the above is not the first cut and paste. The Genesis story (first chapter) is also a cut and paste, cut and pasted from Egyptian concepts of creation.
I have a gut feeling that none of the above is going to convince Cofty to rush back to Church.
Nor me! But let those who need, the equivalent of an invisible friend to talk to, keep their friend.
PS: If someone uses the above stuff to prove the divine origins of the Bible, then did that same divine origin, inspire human insight into the existence of atoms?
Consider:
Around 440 BC, Leucippus of Miletus, in his lost book "The Greater World System," originated the atom concept. He and his pupil, Democritus (c460-371 BC) of Abdera, refined and extended it in future years. There are five major points to their atomic idea. Almost all of the original writings of Leucippus and Democritus are lost. About the only sources we have for their atomistic ideas are found in quotations of other writers.
Since atoms were invisible to the naked eye, the only way they could postulate the idea was through reason. And reason continues to be the way that human change occurs.