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Author Topic:   Did the sky really go dark as biblical inerrantists insist?
Dr Adequate
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Message 89 of 113 (386127)
02-19-2007 8:17 PM
Reply to: Message 69 by velcero
02-12-2007 12:31 PM


Re: Response to Nator
Another point about historical accuracy. The Bible is the single most criticized book in the world. Tests that would confirm authenticity to historians for other writings usually do not confirm the same authenticity for the Bible.
Au contraire. The Bible contains, for example, totally unconfirmed and untested accounts of talking animals. Normally this would be sufficient for historians to dismiss at least these sections of the Bible as mythological. You would normally, would you not, classify a story with talking animals --- Alice in Wonderland, for example --- as fictitious. Yet there are plenty of people willing to defend Genesis as an accurate history of creation; though admittedly few of them can be professional historians these days.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 90 of 113 (386130)
02-19-2007 8:23 PM
Reply to: Message 76 by velcero
02-15-2007 11:29 AM


Re: Land or World?
I will propose to you, though, that contrary to the critics, the Bible is extremely historically accurate. Yes it is a book based in theism. However, it is also a witness in a sense to geology, biology and other sciences. Of course it does not use scientific terminology, which had not yet even been invented. The fact is that many of the sciences, particularly archaeology and geology have supported the historicity of the Bible.
Unfortunately the archaelogical evidence does not confirm the supernatural elements of the Bible; any more than the discovery of Troy confirms the supernatural fables about Greek gods to be found in the Iliad; or any more than the fact that Dick Whittington was "thrice Lord Mayor of London" confirms the supernatural aspects of that fairy story.
As for your claims that biology and geology confirm the Bible, I can only suppose that some unkind person has been pulling your leg.

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