Stars don't move around

It's not a new thing, but there are studies out to solve e.g. the problem of the famous star in the Christmas Story. One that has got more publicity is suggesting that the star moved really on the astrological chart instead of horizon.

Many of the studies themselves are serious science, and I'm not capable of commenting this either, but it's funny how things like that wiggle into church. Almost like a long expected relief, ...finally someone gets some sense to this... It may end up even as a sermon topic.

An average westerner - like a Finn - has an underlying sense that trustworthiness of any issue is measured by the percentage it carries scientifically proven elements (of all it's ingredients). Far from where anyman would really be able to scientifically judge things, but there's a sort of subconscious attraction to materialistic layouts. (there might be a real name to that 'subconscious attraction' that a scientist of that area would call it with.)

However, this attraction sometimes plays fool on us, especially when it comes to things we need to take as facts - as hard as they might be to prove by science, such as Christmas Story with the star as highlight. (although I'm not saying that the star is the must-believe part of the story) But, there are things in it that a believing Christian has to believe or else he ends up in troubles with this overall consistency of his worldview. One way out from the tough spot is to reduce the faithbased elements to the minimum and so make the rest more easy to believe.

I don't consider myself a literalist in the Bible reading, and I don't have a general problem against critical analyses of dominant readings of the Bible passages, but I find it funny, if the motif behind the re-arrangement is to make it easier to believe.

In short, if we are speaking of God being born as a man from a virgin - what's the problem of a star moving around.