What a hoot!
archaeologist writes:
all secular science is, is a tool to provide unbelievers with information thatsupports their unbelief and rejection of the Biblical account.
For sure! Just take that whole thing about the heliocentric solar system: first popularized when Galileo had that problem with the Catholic power structure, furthered by the famously anti-religious Isaac Newton, and now shoved down our throats almost daily by NASA -- the only reason for any of that is to reject the Biblical account that the Earth is at the center! And all those things like landing men on the moon, getting close-up views of all the other planets and the sun itself -- they're all just for the sake of rejecting the Bible, nothing more.
real christianity rejects all alternatives to the biblical accounts. only those who want to do secular science accept alteratives to God's word.
Right -- real christianity, like the Christian Scientist sect, rejects medicine, because medicine is a product of secular science: it's provided as an alternative to God's word, and obviously its sole purpose has always been to reject the Biblical account of illness. (Let's see... what exactly was the Biblical account of illness?)
You are a Christian Scientist, aren't you, archie? Or maybe Amish? Prayer is the only true christian way to deal with appendicitis, staph infection, rabies, polio, smallpox, etc.
there is much good work science can do if the secularists would get out of the way
Really, all those petty demands that these secularists make about using evidence and proper logic -- way too limiting and constraining, and it takes so long to get anything done!
Just think how much quicker things would happen if they just let the religious scientist make whatever claims he or she thinks is consistent his or her own interpretation of whatever Bible passage he or she wants to pick regarding a given question. And the best thing about it: being right or wrong makes no difference, because even if the religious scientist decides to make a prediction, whatever happens is God's Will™ anyway! Amen!
the Bible has never been discredited and such an idea is just wishful thinking on the part of secularists.
Yep, just because the Bible never mentions bacteria, viruses, plate tectonics, atomic and molecular structures, etc, all the knowledge we've acquired about these things doesn't discredit the Bible. Obviously God is pushing these things around and just not telling us about it explicitly -- why should He? I mean, what good does it do to know about these things anyway?
all evidence points to a one time supernaturqal act by God who used His power to create all that we see in the universe today.
Right ... that is, so long as all the evidence you ever look at is the contents of the Bible.
species become extinct because they are over-hunted by greedy men, or their habitats are destroyed by modernization, wars, natural disasters, construction and so on. evolution has nothing to do with it.
Clearly, not only the wooly mammoths but virtually all dinosaurs were hunted to extinction by man long before Noah's flood -- a few pterodactyls may have survived the flood (even without having a berth on the ark), and they were hard to hunt down, but they were naturally drawn to the Tower of Babel and shared its fate. Trilobites were not only over-hunted -- the few that survived the tumultuous currents during the flood were finally done in by the parting of the Red Sea.
i think that provides enough information right now...
... and opens the flood gates for making up lots of new information, to answer any sort of "scientific" question with any number of novel, imaginative, and dogmatically correct answers -- indeed, we can have more answers than dogmas!
And who knows, maybe some of these answers will lead to even more dogmas, which will be just as distinct, internally inconsistent and mutually incompatible as all the existing dogmas. All that is needed is to get one true christian to claim something as dogma, and one or more others to accept it, based on some suitable passage from the Bible, and that's like a walk in the park (or into the revival meeting).
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