[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Go to Jupiter and see a totally new colour which no human has ever seen before, then return to Earth and try to explain that new colour to the greatest intellects on the planet.

You CANNOT.

Because there is no common frame of reference, and you - quite literally - 'have not the words - there is nothing in our vocabulary to describe such an unknown colour.

You are then forced to resort to 'similies' and 'metaphors'; "it was like a bluey gold" etc. etc.

The natives of Papua, New Guinea did not know what an aeroplane was the very first time one flew over their heads glinting in the hot equatorial sun, but they knew what metal was, and knew what a bird was, so aeroplane became 'metal bird' when those who had witnessed it were relating what they saw to those who had not.

Ditto, the American Indians who saw a train for the first time - 'Iron Horse'.

Is it beyond the realms of probability that primitive men used metaphor and parable to enable them to comprehend what was incomprehensible - The Creation story?

And did not ALL humankind stem from 'Adam' and 'Eve' no matter whether one believes in God or Evolution?

Further; when I read of the 'The Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil', I KNOW what message this simple parable carried, and I am reminded of it each time I think of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of the atomic bomb and his chilling quote from the Bhagavad Gita:

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

God in his infinite wisdom KNEW that certain 'knowledge should be kept from his 'children'.

But surely we could describe any colour in our solar system as we use the same light spectrum from our sun wherever we are?
It would have to be some shade of Yellow,Orange,Brown,White etc etc.Colours which we will have seen before here on Earth or shades there of.