The Mosaic Law food laws show evidence of divine knowledge? Law advanced other ways?

I submit that your topic is an example of the Complex Question Fallacy.Whether Mosaic food laws, or anything else in the Tanakh or NT for that matter, are reasonable does not infer that they were inspired by divine knowledge; nor does it infer the existence of any sort of deity.Using that logic, I could just as easily claim that Jules Verne had divine knowledge because he wrote about electrically powered submarines (the Nautilus) or manned missions to the moon (From Earth to the Moon).This message has been edited by custard, 05-26-2004 07:42 PM

Ok, your thread, your rules. I'm not going to read the Macht study so I guess you don't care what I have to say.I will point out that study, or no study, this still does not address my original claim (nor the valid points made by others regarding what constitutes divine knowledge) that this topic is subject to the Complex Question Fallacy.I'll show myself out.

That would be because I never said anything about toxic fish. I don't know why you are attributing that claim to me, but my only contributions to this thread were about logic, not fish.Sixteen posts after I dropped out of this thread because you pulled your 'if you haven't read the Macht report then your position is bupkus' card (which wasn't mentioned anywhere in the title nor specifically stated as a requirement in your first post), and you are still debating me.This message has been edited by custard, 05-28-2004 04:09 PM

I read this and found it to be nothing but unsubstantiated conjecture. The closest thing approximating factual evidence I could identify was this example:

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The bible is divinely inspired because Jews knew the following:
1- Isolation. {Don't hang with the}"Lepers"
2- Washing after handling dead bodies.
3- Sanitation. {it's a good idea to refrain from evacuating in the kitchen}

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None of which implies anything other than a group of people observed over time that hanging out with lepers, washing after handling putrifying corpses , and not eating where you evacuate were sensible behaviors.This link provides no evidence about other cultures. Certainly not the Chinese, who, without the benefit the OT developed higher levels of hygiene well before the Europeans did. I guess the practice wiping their butts with paper was divinely inspired?Speaking of toilet paper, why isn't that mentioned in the bible? Using the same argument that Mosaic food laws infer divine knowledge, I can infer that the bible was NOT divinely inspired since surely even god himself knew the value of wiping after every bowel movement.This message has been edited by custard to fix SP, 05-28-2004 05:06 PMThis message has been edited by custard, 05-28-2004 05:08 PMThis message has been edited by custard, 05-28-2004 05:08 PM

This is a good point, but I don't think it says anything about using toilet paper - you just wash your butt with your bare left hand. I'm not positive this is true, but I certainly never saw evidence of the average Saudi soldier using toilet paper in Saudi Arabia.

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