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Topic: Secularly Verifiable Evidence for Biblical Inerrancy
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Re: The Science of the Bible
Finally, at no point in time does the Bible make a blatantly scientifically inaccurate statement or assertion, as many other sources of mythology do.
Welcome, Sir! To your statement that I quote above, I must say, "Say WHAT??!!" Let's start with talking snakes and asses, houses and garments that catch leprosy and get "greenish or reddish strakes" as a result, speckled poles by the water trough causing goats to have speckled kids...... Let's leave the very plain descriptions of the Earth as immovable and the Flood story for another time. The whole book is rife with examples of a "blatantly scientifically inaccurate statement or assertion." Not just poetic hyperbole, but plain untruths. Are you sure you're reading the same Bible we are? This message has been edited by Coragyps, 10-22-2004 04:57 PM
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Re: The Science of the Bible
Yes, Earth as immovable: 1 Chronicles 16:30: He has fixed the earth firm, immovable. Psalm 93:1: Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ... Psalm 96:10: He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ... Psalm 104:5: Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken. Isaiah 45:18: ...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast... And the only "gone over" the Flood story we've done is to gloss over the parts about 15 cubits above the highest mountains and all life that had breath in in nostrils being destroyed. The Black Sea filling up ain't that.....
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Re: The Science of the Bible
Scientific fact, every area of the world, from an anthropological point of view, was flooded........
Bologna. Support this claim - did the Tibetans flood out? The ancestors of the Incas?
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Man is the only animal on Earth for which there aren't a multitude of cousins and closely related species.
False. Man is far more closely related to other great apes than, off the top of my head: *aardvarks, echidnas, and platypuses are to anything else at all *two-toed sloths are to three-toed sloths, or either of them are to anteaters or armadillos *the three species of elephant are to anything else * the pronghorn antelope is to any other ungulate.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Re: The Science of the Bible
Miraculous events are not blatantly unscientific.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, other than "Is not!" Please find me a citation in the scientific literature where Mycobacterium leprae has 1)been cultured on plaster 2)been cultured in either the warp or the woof of fabric of either the woolen or the linen sort 3)been eliminated in an infected human by the killing of pigeons in a bowl over water. As an alternative, run these experiments yourself, of find an "inerrantist" ministry that would like to sponsor a university research program in the field.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Re: The Science of the Bible
well, I've never SEEN macroevolution.......
Then perhaps you should read up on palaeontology. Jennifer Clack's Gaining Ground is possibly at your library - technical, but completely full of examples, with pictures, of "fish" becoming land critters.
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Back this up.
You can start here: ADW: Mammalia: INFORMATIONYou will find that, for instance, aardvarks are all alone in the order Tubulidentata and that echidnas and platypuses, though both in the order Monotremata, are in different families. The order Primates, to which you and I belong, has 233 species in 13 families: our family, Hominidae, has five species.
Emphasis on THREE species of elephant....
Oh. I didn't know three was "a multitude." Sorry.
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