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Faith 
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Message 46 of 99 (809451)
05-18-2017 12:35 PM
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05-18-2017 12:29 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
God is the God of science as well as everything else, like it or not.

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Message 47 of 99 (809460)
05-18-2017 12:46 PM
Reply to: Message 46 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:35 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Faith writes:
God is the God of science as well as everything else, like it or not.
Your beliefs are irrelevant.

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Message 48 of 99 (809465)
05-18-2017 12:58 PM
Reply to: Message 46 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:35 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
God is the God of science as well as everything else, like it or not.
Well, that's wrong. Science is a method of discovering how the Universe works. Your god keeps it all a secret and reveals nothing. You have deluded yourself into believing things that are clearly at odds with the evidence discovered by science that can be seen by anyone who wants to look.
As I have said numerous times before, your beliefs about geology and biology and evolution are full of holes you cannot explain, thousands of holes. Science is the way to explain them.

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The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Faith 
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Message 49 of 99 (809466)
05-18-2017 12:58 PM
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05-18-2017 12:46 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Kindly keep the context in mind. I'm talking about how a Bible believer has to go about this, and knowing that the Bible is God's own revelation is prior to all else, so this mindless refrain about having to start from some other evidence is totally absolutely irrelevant. If God is God and the Bible is His word it would be idiotic to start with anything but His revelation. Just logic should tell you that much.

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Faith 
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Message 50 of 99 (809471)
05-18-2017 1:00 PM
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05-18-2017 12:58 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Funny how "science" has the biggest holes of all, the denial of the clear evidence of the strata and the fossils. Elephant in the room.

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Taq
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Message 51 of 99 (809472)
05-18-2017 1:01 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:58 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Faith writes:
I'm talking about how a Bible believer has to go about this, and knowing that the Bible is God's own revelation is prior to all else, so this mindless refrain about having to start from some other evidence is totally absolutely irrelevant.
What a Bible believer has to do is irrelevant to how reality really is. If a Bible believer has to believe the Moon is made of green cheese, that doesn't force the Moon to suddenly turn into green cheese. What a believer has to do has nothing to do with what the facts are.

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Message 52 of 99 (809474)
05-18-2017 1:03 PM
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05-18-2017 1:01 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Can't even follow the logic I see.

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Message 53 of 99 (809477)
05-18-2017 1:06 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by Faith
05-18-2017 10:24 AM


Re: Leonardo's unbiblical guesses
You are welcome Faith.
You of course twisted the information to fit your fantasy world. Curiously it doesn't change reality.
I expected nothing else.
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Message 54 of 99 (809479)
05-18-2017 1:07 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:58 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
If God is God and the Bible is His word it would be idiotic to start with anything but His revelation.
Sure, start with it if you want. But if your interpretation of the words is completely contradicted by reality, like by the fact that we know without a doubt that the entire planet has not been covered in water since humans have been here, then you should change your interpretation if you're not willing to accept that the words say something that is wrong. Like, perhaps it was just a local flood rather than a global one. Or perhaps it is a tale that never really happened in the first place.
But just tricking yourself into believing what you think you must is a serious disservice to yourself.

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Message 55 of 99 (809481)
05-18-2017 1:12 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by Faith
05-18-2017 1:03 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Faith writes:
Can't even follow the logic I see.
Can't demonstrate the logic of your argument, I see.

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Message 56 of 99 (809483)
05-18-2017 1:18 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by Faith
05-18-2017 1:00 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Funny how "science" has the biggest holes of all, the denial of the clear evidence of the strata and the fossils. Elephant in the room.
Well, that is something that you have demonstrated over and over..... that you don't know any science, while we pointed out to you obvious flaws in all of your arguments.
The clear evidence of the strata and fossils is that the earth has been undergoing geological processes for billions of years while life has been evolving into the diversity we see today. The sequence of layers and fossils is impossible to have been the result of your flood. In science we don't ignore evidence because it disagrees with beliefs or your bible.
When evidence disagrees with the bible, the bible is wrong, no matter what you believe.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Message 57 of 99 (809486)
05-18-2017 1:35 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:34 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Local floods could not have deposited them without breaking them to bits.
So you agree that Leonardo was wrong about that.
He thought that some fossils could have been deposited by local floods but the Noachic fludde could not have deposited the fossils he studied. The link I gave does not say that he thought local floods could have deposited the fossils of which he wrote "if the shells had been carried by the muddy deluge they would have been mixed up, and separated from each other amidst the mud, and not in regular steps and layers -- as we see them now in our time."
Why is there such certainty about what the Flood would have done as long as it contradicts what the Bible says?
Because we know a lot of how the physical world works.
Um, the scientists so far quoted disagree with each other quite a bit about how the physical world works.
I certainly haven't see anyone doubt what we know about floods we've observed or left unmistakable traces in the past, or basic hydrodynamics. Got any references?

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Message 58 of 99 (809487)
05-18-2017 1:52 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:58 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Faith writes:
I'm talking about how a Bible believer has to go about this, and knowing that the Bible is God's own revelation is prior to all else, so this mindless refrain about having to start from some other evidence is totally absolutely irrelevant.
Once again, that is simply wrong Faith.
There are Bible believers like myself that understand that the Bible is the creation of just plain humans.
But it would be idiotic to take what is written in the Bible over what is written in the rocks, the stars, biology and reality. Just reason should tell you that much.
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Message 59 of 99 (809489)
05-18-2017 2:07 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by Faith
05-18-2017 12:34 PM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
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Local floods could not have deposited them without breaking them to bits.
So you agree that Leonardo was wrong about that.
Da Vinci didn't say any fossils were deposited by local floods. He was arguing against the idea that they could have been deposited by a flood; since many of them clearly grew in situ. He was of the opinion that the whole earth was once covered by sea, but not in any short term flood. The fact that fossilised corals which show no sign of having been uprooted and deposited by any flood are found in the Alps, showed him that the Alps must have been under the sea for many years.
The full book of his collected notes is available on Sacred Texts here, by the way. His thoughts on the flood and fossils are collected in Chapter 16 in the second volume.

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Message 60 of 99 (809504)
05-18-2017 4:23 PM
Reply to: Message 35 by Taq
05-18-2017 11:49 AM


Re: Leonardo inadvertently proves the Flood
Hi Taq,
Taq writes:
If there really was a recent global flood then the facts will lead us to that conclusion independent of the Bible.
What do you base that belief on?
God Bless,

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