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Message 89 of 310 (409043)
07-06-2007 11:05 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dragoness
06-22-2007 11:20 PM


Dragoness
Examples of instances where science DISPROOVES parts of the Bible
My favorite has to be in Isaiah 38:8
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down
I made a point of this in another thread a long time ago and this was the response I made then.
Now it appears Tom is under some illusion of what is entailed in the physics behind a god stopping the earth and reversing the rotation.
Besides the fact that no other nation recorded this event,nor,I might add did they notice that the sun now came up on the horizon it used to set on.{Remember,the earth is never stated as being returned to its original spin.}
The earth rotates at 1000 mph at the equator. It rotates at about,say, 450 mph at the level of the Middle East.Now if you stop the earth all the people and animals and anything to varying degrees according to their composition and mass will still be rotating at 450 mph eastward.Mountains would move less as the shearing forces began to acquire sufficient energy to break and melt rock.
So basically you would be sitting in your fields tending your sheep when you suddenly find the ground beneath you grinding the flesh off your bones from the friction as you are now moving across it at 450 mph.The pain would be short lived as you quickly slam into a nearby hillside as it is turning into slag from the heat produced by inertial forces.Let us nor forget the wind at earths surface would now be experiencing similar disaster as it now moves at similar velocity along with you.The waters of the ocean are fluid so they would now be under some weird shifts since the gravitational forces are unbalanced towards the moon along with the surge as the oceans continued to move at the same speed.
This is planetary destruction unlike anything ever described before.

"Good displays of data help to reveal knowledge relevant to understanding mechanism, process and dynamics, cause and effect." We see the unthinkable and think the unseeable. "Visual representations of evidence should be governed by principles of reasoning about quantitative evidence. Clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking."
Edward R. Tufte

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Message 105 of 310 (409086)
07-07-2007 9:40 AM
Reply to: Message 92 by Doddy
07-07-2007 12:56 AM


Doddy
This is why science can't disprove the Bible
Not so, in this case, because the supposed event was not recorded by any other contemporary civilization anywhere else in the world. Therefore we can assert that the event cannot have happened since the event was tied to a global phenomena.
This is further evidence that the likelihood of the event is better explained by embellishment from the writers than a miracle.When you hear the sound of hoofbeats think horses before zebras.

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Message 106 of 310 (409088)
07-07-2007 9:53 AM
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07-07-2007 2:46 AM


IamJoseph
However, it is best to deal with non-miracles to validate or challenge the OT veracity.
It is the miracles that are the heart of debate for the veracity of biblical literalism. Since the description of Isaiah is incapable of being correct not just for the impossibility of its happening physically it is also unrecorded elsewhere and thus should be considered a exaggeration in the extreme by writers who had little knowledge of the actual workings of the world.
And there are 100s of 1000s of non-miracle historical, mathematical and scientific stats in the OT's verses and para's.
But the historical mathematical and scientific are events and things we can dispute or verify again based on their capability of being valid. My post was aimed at the question in the OP and I have shown a case for the scientific impossibility of the verse in Isaiah.
As an aside, please present a mathematical or scientific verse that details a correct understanding of the world would you?

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Message 108 of 310 (409103)
07-07-2007 11:22 AM
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07-07-2007 10:45 AM


ICANT
LOL
In one Planck time even the guy looking would miss it.

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Message 118 of 310 (409134)
07-07-2007 3:32 PM
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07-07-2007 12:22 PM


Re: Re-Time
ICANT
But with only 10 degrees no one else would notice the difference because they would not be looking for the event.
You really do not think through the consequence of your statements ICANT because if you did you would realize that you have just said that the sun had taken a movement back along its path equivalent to nearly 1/20 of its entire horizon to horizon movement through the sky. { 180 degrees divided by 10 degrees}
This is significant enough to be noticed especially when all shadows will do the same thing. The person sitting in the shade of the tree to escape the hot sun now finds themselves in sunlight once again.
How you can imagine that such significant events can be overlooked is symptomatic of the ludicrous nature of the assumption that such an event actually occurred rather than was a writers embellishment of the history they were trying to convey is simply stunning and of indefensible origin. You read into the paragraphs that which is not evidenced by them.
The hoofbeats of zebras must be all around you these days.

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Message 160 of 310 (409228)
07-08-2007 2:08 AM
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07-07-2007 11:12 PM


Re: Re-Time
ICANT
If the earth reversed so as to move the shadow of the sun 10 degrees that would amount to about 36 minutes average.
If you are trying to argue that this is not a noticeable difference then I am afraid you have shot yourself in the foot.

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Message 167 of 310 (409237)
07-08-2007 3:42 AM
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07-08-2007 12:57 AM


IamJoseph
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO CREATIONISM. AND THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY SO!
CREATIONISM DEPENDS LESS ON MIRACLES THAN ITS ANTITHESIS!
YELLING DOES NOT MAKE AN ARGUMENT VALID JOE!
It is not the OT but our current conclusions what constitutes science (in relation to the universe emergence and of life), that is most focused and dependent on miracles. The notion that one can illustrate (no proof exists) in some mode how matter can become life, as a counter-proof to Genesis, is absolute gibberish when better examined.
Talk is cheap. Please,explain how it is gibberish when better examined.Also, could you detail how science is dependent upon miracles Joseph?
here is no difference in how matter becomes life, with how matter emerged from nothing - these rest on the same paradigm. And when we look at any further reasonings here, we have an escapism from science to a poor emulation of genesis' 'something from nothing' premise: that matter always existed. This is escapism - suddenly, at the most critical juncture, we are told matter (particles?) has always existed, while still condoning this as a scientific explanation!
So exactly how does God come about then Joe? Is he something? Was he once nothing? God existing forever is no less a problem that matter always existing as you so erroneously put it. Matter as we know it has not always existed.
But even the notion of infinite matter (sic) is unscientific. When further examined, we arrive at the point where it is not the infinite aspect which is operational and applicable here: nothing happens with matter per se - we find that matter changes only by the impact/interaction of another force upon it.
Really? Explain how matter changes fundamentally when forces act upon it would you?
Take it further now. We are told that energy is matter in an altered state
Man you are so far off the mark as to be coming up behind yourself now. Please tell us where in science it says that energy is matter in an altered state.
Scientific validity:
1. 'SOMETHING FROM NOTHING'. I note that when creation is described in Genesis' creation chapter, it begins with the preamble of an infinte Creator ('In the beginning Gd), and no tools or products or forces are mentioned when Light, for example, is created. So yes, this ia 'snap of the finger' magic - but it is scientifically superior to the same snap finger magic which lies at the bottom of its antithesis: at least it has an academic, if non-provable, CAUSE for the EFFECT!
So what is the cause of God Joe?
'A SEED SHALL FOLLOW ITS OWN KIND'. This too is scientifically vindicated and validated. And this is in our midst: we can 'see' that repro and transmissions of all things occur via the seed.
And the offspring of each seed is a little different than the one that preceeded it, changing through the millenia and over eons from simple seed to more complex.
'MAN AND WOMEN CREATED HE THEM'. This says that everything began with a DUALITY. There is no SINGULARITY, and nothing can happen without a duality factor. It is not unscientific - its antithesis is!
I really do not know what is meant by singularity here so I am stumped on how to respond. Perhaps you would be good enough to clarify hmmm?
'LET THERE BE LIGHT'. That this is the first entity, even preceding the sun and stars, is very reasonably borne out with no alternative. The stars could produce no light if it were not already pre-existant in some essential form.
Since light is the result of energy levels shifting in the orbits of electrons of atoms then this is pretty much dead in the water my lad.
Maths validity:
That the OT contains literally 100s of 1000s of numbers (dates, distances, dobs & dod's)
Should not be too hard to give an example then eh?
That The Ten Commandments are declared as occuring on a 'SATURDAY', and this corresponds with every other number and date in the OT and its 3000 year diarised calendar, down to the 'DAY' - is a showcase of unequalled math. We could not perform this feat today for a 3000 year period.
Please Do show the math will you?
Historical Validity.
We are disputing the OT historicity's accuracy with minutae examples, while disregarding that it is 99% correct - and that the error of some instances can be esewhere from the OT. The fact is, we have historical data here which is largely authentic and vindicated - and that most of this historical info is not available elsewhere - not for 3000 years of other, independent recordings, untill archeology arrived!
LArgely authenticated AND vindicated you say. Again please show us will you?
We reject or redicule the above factors from a zeal to negate all theologies
How do you conclude that asking for and questioning assumptions and conclusions is ridicule Joe? It is called using your head rather than swallowing whole someone else's ideas of the world.
t is not a scientifically validated rejection, but an agenda based one. It is hardly based on any scientific reasonings, which has become the mainstay of disputation. And we do this by citing some miracles listed in the OT, while disregarding the miracles hiden in its antithesis!
Better, we explain scientifically, how the universe could have emerged from a non-existing Singularity, and how that impossible Singularity could 'ALTER' itself without another impacting entity
I have already asked for clarification here so we will skip reiteration for now.
So please explain it already will you?
I am not trying to dogmatically justify a theology or lessen the sacredness of science or math or logic. It is about what alternative there is, against an astonishing document which is eronously placed as just another religion. IMHO, there is no alternative to Creationism.
Science math and logic are not sacred Joe they are just useful in explaining things.

"Good displays of data help to reveal knowledge relevant to understanding mechanism, process and dynamics, cause and effect." We see the unthinkable and think the unseeable. "Visual representations of evidence should be governed by principles of reasoning about quantitative evidence. Clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking."
Edward R. Tufte

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Message 171 of 310 (409246)
07-08-2007 8:22 AM
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07-08-2007 7:19 AM


Doddy
Of course it does not. It merely points out that one should focus on the ordinary first to eliminate the mundane answers first since they are the most likely source. We check out the known and mundane first as an answer before we check out the exotic unknown.

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