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Dr Adequate
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Message 257 of 1352 (805503)
04-18-2017 11:56 PM
Reply to: Message 252 by Faith
04-18-2017 11:18 PM


Re: On "opinions"
No it isn't. The viewer through the telescope becomes a direct witness.
He becomes a direct witness of what he sees when he looks at the eyepiece of the telescope (just as the geologist is a direct witness of what he sees when he looks at the readout of the dating machine).
But to say that that somehow makes the astronomer an eyewitness of the stars would, even at best, be assuming the very thing you're being challenged to prove --- that looking at the lens of the telescope half an inch in front of your eye gives you an accurate picture of (for example) the Andromeda Galaxy, 14,700,000,000,000,000,000 miles away, when you have never been there to verify that the telescope really does accurately represent things that far away. To believe that it does must necessarily "rely on assumptions, interpretations, extrapolations", or to put it another way it's a perfectly normal application of the scientific method.

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Message 258 of 1352 (805504)
04-19-2017 12:02 AM
Reply to: Message 254 by Adminnemooseus
04-18-2017 11:41 PM


Re: "Bible Study" topic, not a science topic
So, science is off-topic here.
OK, I shall devote the rest of my posts on this thread to my numerological proof that David Jay Jordan is the Antichrist.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 263 of 1352 (805509)
04-19-2017 1:34 AM
Reply to: Message 262 by Faith
04-19-2017 1:17 AM


Re: On "opinions"
But the telescope gives us a direct witness in a way that dating methods don't.
Again this assumes the thing to be proved.
It ought to be unarguable that a written document describing events in the past, that has lots of agreement from account to account, gives clues to how to date the events, mentions historical real-world kings and leaders that can be tracked extrabiblically, and so on, is a lot better witness than an error-prone atomic decay system.
No it should not. I could write such a document myself. I could put in lots of real kings and battles and dates, and also a bit about how the world was vomited up 10000 years ago by a mutant space goat. And the true bits wouldn't verify the made-up bit.
Or I could simply compile together everything that some nation other than the Jews (let's say the ancient Greeks) wrote about their history and the history of the world. I could bind all that stuff together into one book and call it the Biblos. And none of the verifiable bits that turned out to be good history would add one shred of confirmation to the myth of Prometheus.

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Message 266 of 1352 (805524)
04-19-2017 3:56 AM
Reply to: Message 265 by CRR
04-19-2017 3:50 AM


Re: Re:Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's Flood
I think they are cause and effect. The flood carved the Grand Canyon which then provided the route of least resistance for the river that formed later.
So, how much of the course of the Colorado River do you think was carved out by the Flood? Just the Grand Canyon?
You don't think the river at the bottom of it is a clue?
It's a huge clue. Here we have something that looks like it was carved out by a river, and oh look, there's a river at the bottom of it.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 276 of 1352 (805570)
04-19-2017 9:55 AM
Reply to: Message 271 by Davidjay
04-19-2017 8:07 AM


Re: Re:Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's Flood
But then again evolutionists in their mind numbing belief system that NOTHING EVER changes
Evolutionists believe that nothing ever changes?
May I ask where you got this remarkable notion?
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 277 of 1352 (805571)
04-19-2017 9:58 AM
Reply to: Message 267 by Faith
04-19-2017 5:50 AM


Re: On "opinions"
Your fake might get a few nuts to follow it, but anybody who follows the Bible would know it was a fake.
People have followed lots of books purporting to contain history, from the Rig Vedas to the Book of Mormon.
The Bible is authentic history and that's why it is a good witness.
Well, that was perfectly circular, wasn't it?

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Message 278 of 1352 (805572)
04-19-2017 10:01 AM
Reply to: Message 268 by Faith
04-19-2017 5:51 AM


Re: Re:Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's Flood
But it does not look like it was carved out by a river. the narrow parts maybe but not the wide parts.
Does too. If you look at things you do admit were carved by a river, such as incised meanders, you will see that they too are wider than the river at the bottom. This is how water and rocks work.
And since your alternate explanation seems flawed by the fact that water doesn't work like that, I think we'll go with the river theory.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 285 of 1352 (805610)
04-19-2017 3:03 PM
Reply to: Message 282 by Faith
04-19-2017 1:37 PM


Re: Re::Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's Flood
Meanders have nothing in common with the widest parts of the canyon.
They have one thing in common, which is that they are wider at the top than the rivers that flow through them. Which should give you a clue as to how rocks and water work.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 287 of 1352 (805617)
04-19-2017 3:13 PM
Reply to: Message 281 by Faith
04-19-2017 1:30 PM


Re: the idea of more than one biblical flood is what's silly, AND the date of course
All that broken-up strata flowing downhill could be described as violent in its effects in some places, as huge amounts of debris-laden water flows back to its former sea level.
Once again, it wouldn't flow downhill. There wouldn't be a downhill.
The prevailing idea that the strata represent time periods is truly absurd. Separated sediments for starters would be a very unlikely result of millions of years of life on earth. Then their lying horizontally one on top of another with no signs of anything similar to what is seen on the earth's surface today, just flatness, plus their containing an abundance of dead things, is NOT what the surface of the earth normally does, but exactly what the Flood would have done. That was its purpose, after all, to wipe out all living things on the land. A lot of sea life died too, of course.
You remember how you sometimes claim to have read my geology textbook?
I suggest that you do so.
Oh I see. It's your training as a psychoanalyst that tells you the fault is in my personality, we don't need to consider my actual arguments.
But you do object when we look too closely. This is not a question of psychoanalysis, this is just what you do.
Apparently you, like too many other so-called Christians, don't care a fig whether the Bible is treated as a myth and Christians as delusional believers in a fake "sky wizard." I don't understand that attitude. Defending the faith as well s we can is our calling.
Painting a red clown nose on the face of Christ crucified does not defend the faith.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 288 of 1352 (805618)
04-19-2017 3:14 PM
Reply to: Message 286 by Faith
04-19-2017 3:04 PM


Re: Re::Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's Flood
I'm not talking about the shape of the walls, I'm talking about the width of the canyon.
A distinction without a difference.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 320 of 1352 (805741)
04-20-2017 11:53 AM
Reply to: Message 317 by Davidjay
04-20-2017 9:56 AM


Re: Denial is not science... Continental Drift Hyper
Why, because man in his arrogance when united, is dangerous ...
Quite so: a supposedly omnipotent and omniscient God was worried that they might build a tower that reached the sky. There was a biiiiig danger of that.

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Message 372 of 1352 (805890)
04-21-2017 11:47 AM
Reply to: Message 368 by Faith
04-21-2017 11:30 AM


Re: Let's not keep arguing the same old basics
Let me see if I can make the point clearer. It's become a broken record that doesn't further the debate in the slightest. We've been exchanging the same opinions over and over but this can never go anywhere because they are basic premises that aren't going to be changed. They are just being asserted rather than used in the argument to any real purpose. It's just a huge waste of time to keep getting this same old same old stuff about the Bible being a myth and dating methods being the last word on the discussion. Or jar's endless carrying on about his ridiculous interpretations of the Bible. Or my statements about the absurdity of the OE/ToE assumptions or that the Bible's dates trump the dating methods. They can be stated as a conclusion from an argument but too often they are just stated over and over and over and over and over in the place of an argument.
OK, then let's break this vicious cycle by having you derive the infallibility of the Bible as a conclusion instead of a premise.
If that's too hard, just show that it does not in fact fail with respect to certain specific claims contained in it such as, y'know, the Flood, the age of the Earth, fiat creation of species, that sort of thing. But without taking this as a premise in place of an argument. Go on, show us how it's done.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 373 of 1352 (805891)
04-21-2017 11:48 AM
Reply to: Message 371 by Coyote
04-21-2017 11:43 AM


Re: Velikovsky
You could at least spell his name correctly.
But then he'd have to be right about something.

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Message 377 of 1352 (805897)
04-21-2017 12:14 PM
Reply to: Message 374 by Faith
04-21-2017 12:05 PM


Re: Let's not keep arguing the same old basics
But that could be asked of your model too.
And we could give sensible answers. For example, all radiometric dates being less than 6000 years old. Or modern species of animals being found in the oldest strata. (Along with the city built by Cain.) An absence of erosional features that would have taken a long time to erode. Plenty of (non-cosmogenic) isotopes with a half-life in the order of thousands of years. Not being able to see stars more than 6000 light years away. I could go on, but that'll do for now.

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Message 378 of 1352 (805898)
04-21-2017 12:20 PM
Reply to: Message 375 by Faith
04-21-2017 12:07 PM


Re: Let's not keep arguing the same old basics
The topic is the Flood, not the validity of the Bible.
So, stick to the Flood. But without assuming as a premise that the Bible is right about it and "the only reliable source of truth on this planet". Try deriving as a conclusion that there was a single universal flood 4000 years ago, from which only a pair (or seven if kosher) of each air-breathing animal was saved as the nucleus of a new population. We'll watch and take notes.

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