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Huntard
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Message 24 of 65 (577717)
08-30-2010 7:36 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by archaeologist
08-30-2010 7:24 AM


archaeologist writes:
it took OVER 40 YEARS before someone thought that piltdown man was a fraud.
If it can't be examined, it can't be found out to be a fraud. By the way, who discovered it was a fraud? Hint: It wasn't a creationist.
no it is not impossible for any researcher to commit fraud.
Nobody ever said it was.
evolutionists do it every day.
No we don't, we're not creationists, afterall.

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Huntard
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Message 27 of 65 (577725)
08-30-2010 8:14 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by Bolder-dash
08-30-2010 7:48 AM


I'll leave the comments about Freud, because I don't know alot about it. In any case, could you provide some evidence for these claims?
Bolder-dash writes:
Likewise, as archaeologist pointed out, it was not the great scientific community that uncovered his fraud, it was the students!
They are a part of the scientific community.
How in the world can anyone try to use this as evidence of the great moral code of science? That's utterly ridiculous.
Becuase it is. As soon as it was found out, it was reported to the authorities and the person was dealt with.
As for the rest of your comments, do you think this kind of hate will be aprreciated, or shows an accurate representation of what a Christian should be like? If not, then why do you do it?

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Huntard
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Message 46 of 65 (577909)
08-31-2010 1:48 AM
Reply to: Message 36 by archaeologist
08-30-2010 5:19 PM


archaeologist writes:
yes someone did say it or it wouldn't have been quoted.
But you didn't quote it. Here's what you quoted:
archaeologist writes:
Taz writes:
it is impossible for any researcher to commit fraud without somebody blowing the whistle.
Nowhere in this sentence does it say it is impossible for any researcher to commit fraud, just that it is impossible without getting caught.
am going to have to change my quoting habits to make sure editing doesn't take place after i quote theperson.
The message you quoted from was not edited, you simply read the quote wrong.
actually you do and creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong' and 'if any man bring a different gospel than the one Jesus and the disiciples brought...'
the most uneducated christian can detect fraud
That's not a way to detect frauds, however, evidence could be fabricated that agrees with the bible, that would still be fraudulent evidence though. No, I'm not saying any evidence found that supports the bible is fraudulent, just that when it is fabricated it is fraudulent. Like the Paluxy river tracks.
oh pulleeaasssee. that is stretching credibility beyond its snapping point.
Not really no. Students are part of the scientific community. Always have been, always will. As long as you're doing science, you're part of the community.

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Huntard
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Message 49 of 65 (577922)
08-31-2010 4:39 AM
Reply to: Message 47 by archaeologist
08-31-2010 4:25 AM


archaeologist writes:
actually it is and we can do so without losing 8, 12, 40 years.
Ok, I guess I have to be more clear.
Say, somebody claims to have found evidence for the Exodus, yet he has fabricated (this means he made it himself, and it is thus not evidence for anything) this evidence himself. Say, a tablet with hyroglyphs that mentions moses, now this does not contradict the bible. If that is all the tests it has to pass to be said to be genuine, will it be accepted as such, yet it is a fraud.
sorry but science has a long wasy to go before it catches up with christianity.
Not if that is the only criterium you guys use. You see, this guy's findings were in favour of evolution, they were agreeing with it, meaning that if we would use the same criteria as you, we would declare it true regardless of it being a fraud.
you all just do not want to admit that your precious scientific field is greatly flawed and cannot achieve what you all want. it is the blind leading the blind and your faith and hope in it is greatly misplaced.
Yes yes, we're evil and wretched. Once again I ask you to leave these comments out, they add nothing, what would add something is explaining why you think this is the case.
why follow a field of study that is not for the truth and answers?
I'm not.
God has the answers for everything and we do not need years to find them out.
Would you ask god how atomic fision works then? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the bible. There are science books full of how it works though.

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Huntard
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Message 50 of 65 (577923)
08-31-2010 4:45 AM
Reply to: Message 48 by archaeologist
08-31-2010 4:29 AM


archaeologist writes:
look you all are just making the same excuses you would not accept from a creationist or christian.
On the contrary, if a creationist would stand up and walk up to, say Kent Hovind, and say to him: "Look here, you're completely wrong, and this is why", and then everybody would join in and he would be expelled from creationism altogether, never to be taken serious ever again, I would be very pleased with how that was handled.
stop embarrassing yourselves andjust admit the scientific field is not as great as you want it to be andnever will be because it is not immune to the sin and corruption that entered the world at adam's sin.
Of course it's not perfect. What it does do very well however, is find out if stuff is true or not. That is why it's so great.
you have no defense for this has gone on for centuries and you never clean up the entire fieldor for that matter try to clean it up because your reputations, the money, the power is too great of a temptation that keeps you all from being honest.
Every fraud you know about, you know about because scientists exposed it. If we really didn't want to expose frauds, we wouldn't, and you wouldn't know about them.

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Huntard
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Message 55 of 65 (577961)
08-31-2010 8:25 AM
Reply to: Message 53 by archaeologist
08-31-2010 7:38 AM


archaeologist writes:
i am ignoring the insult which hurts you more than it hurts me.
Insult? Where did I insult you in that quoted text? (Yes, I am interested, my goal here is not to insult anyone, and if I did I am really sorry for that).
what you are saying is impossible because God would know it was a fraud and we would rely on the Holy Spirit to show us the truth.
So, basically, you would "feel" if it is true. Is that a correct way of putting it?
we go through this all the time, if it isn't noah's ark, it is mt. sinai it is som eother hard to find place or artifact. you forget that we have both christian and secular experts examining every piece of evidence to make sure it is correct.
Yes, but according to you, those secular ones are not to be trusted, right? And all the "true Christians" have is their "feeling", right? What if some "feel" that it is genuine? How do you determine that it is or isn't? For Instance, a member here on this forum (Buzsaw) feels that there is evidence for the exodus in the Arabian Gulf, there are however Christians that say that his evidence is no such thing (and I'm not talking about Christians you don't accept as such). How do we determine which one of those has the right "feeling"?
now let' take mt. sinai. Both the caldwells and bob cornuke have taken pictures of the mountain they claim is sinai (i have the caldwell's book and cornuke's dvd), nearby is a split rock. they both claim it is the split rock of the exodus fame. PROBLEM is they can't prove it true. its a split rock but they cannot prove it split 3,500 yeaes ago or that the supposed water from this one came out at that time.
Yes, this is the stuff I was talking about. I'm guessing they "feel" that they have the right answer. Now, how do we determine if that "feeling" is correct or not?
in dealing with scriptural events and artifacts, there is no real test that will conclusively prove it to be what is claimed. sure one can put hieroglyphics on a tablet or monument but they can't fake the patina, they may not be able to write the ancient way thus the grammer would be off, et al. there are too many factors involved that would make it very difficult to pass off a forged item as real.
But that is using secular science to determine that it isn't real. All you said you had was the bible. There are no Hyroglyphics in the bible, nor any egyptian grammar. How do you determine these things with just the bible?
look at the james ossuary, the trial about its legitimacy has been going on for 4 years regardless of the experts (mostly secular) claims that it is not a forgery. guess what, we will never be able to prove it to be the ossuary of the real james who was the brother of Jesus. I have BAS's Jerusalem forgery conference report about this very item in my book case.
Yes, but you said that all that was necdcessary is the bible, this is all secular science.
so your example fails because we are talking about the past and events that cannot be proven, and that is an orange compared to your apple of modern day scientists who can be shown to be wrong, or forged their studies simply because ceretain facts do not line up. you also have a confession soit makes your question a little moot.
That wasn't my point. My point was to get you to realize that using just the bible is not a good way to go around determining the truth in matters such as this. Or at least get a more clear answer about how one goes about using the bible to determine truth in such matters.
we also have a very small archaeological community who would question things very thoroughly so it would be very hard to pass off an item as true when it was FABRICATED.
Yes, but they are using secular science, not the bible, to determine those things.
we believers have an advantage over you secularists, we have God on our side who doesn't want us falling victim to lies while you have te devil who wants you to be deceived and that makes a world of difference in dealing with these type of situations.
Yes, I deserve to die, but the problem (in my eyes anyway), is that you don;t have a way to determine if this is actually the case. You see, I could claim you have the devil on your side as well (no, I'm not saying you do), and that in fact, you are the one that is wrong. How do we determine which one of us is right? I know you don't feel this way, I understand all that. I would like to now how in a hypothetical case, you would determine which of two persons is right, when both of them calim the other is doing satans work.
what bolderdash was upset about was jar's and other's declaration that the so-called self correcting aspect of science was flawless and did its job.
I don;t know if it's flawless, but it certainly did it's job, the second it was found out this guy was a fraud, they reported it to the outside world, and even to the authorities. I don;t see what the problem here is?
it wasn't and it failed for 8 years.Add toti the fact that this isn't the first case, but thousands upon thousands of similar cases have been committed thus you cannot promote someting as ideal when it is not.
I doubt that there are that many cases. But even if there were, the fact you know about them is due to the fact that it does work, for they were found out.
doesn't have to be in the Bible for God to show us how to get to the answer.
No, but in this case, secular science was used to come to the answer. Either you trust secular science or you don't.
since i am not an atomic physicist i wouldn't be asking and even in archaeology i would not ask to find the ark of the convenant for that may not be in His will for me to find BUT i would ask for the right spot to dig in to find truth, to give Him glory for what is found.
Ok. Do you think people in nuclear physics "asked" god to show them how it worked, or did they do lots of esperiments and calculations to come to this conclusion?
yet it is not like He is handing out candy every time someone asks Himsomething. there are 3 answers He will give, possibly 4; yes, no, not at this time, or itis not for you to do.
Which are the same answers my carton of milk gives when I pray to it. No, I don;t mean this as an insult. I would love to go step by step with you on these issues, to see if we can come to some understanding (it doesn't have to be acceptance).
the rules are very different and there is a lot to take into consideration.
I'm sure there is.

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