"In matters relating to the physical or natural sciences the sacred writers spoke as children of their time, and in a language which their fellowman could understand." Comment on these words. Show how they help to explain many apparent contradictions between science and the Bible; e. g., Josue commanding the sun to stand still, the earth supposed to rest on water, the chambers of water above the firmament, the cud-chewing hares, etc.

Emmy kicks a soccer ball up at an angle of 45° over a level field. she watches the ball's trajectory and notices that it lands, two seconds after being kicked, about 20 m away to the north. assume that air resistance is negligible, and plot the horizontal and vertical components of the ball's velocity as a function of time. consider only the time that the ball is in the air, after being kicked but before landing. take "north" and "up" as the positive ‑ and ‑directions, respectively, and use ≈10 m/s2 for the downward acceleration due to gravity.