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Author Topic:   How does science disprove the Bible?
Jon
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Message 38 of 310 (407134)
06-24-2007 1:40 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dragoness
06-22-2007 11:20 PM


I think the Bible says X, whilst science points us to an answer of Y. Not necessarily does science say non-X or not X; it simply says Y and doesn't say X.
I guess one could look at it in the same manner that this book I have on the Renaissance doesn't disprove the existence of automobiles. The Renaissance and automobiles are two separate things. The Bible and science are two separate things.
Jon

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Jon
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Message 50 of 310 (408699)
07-04-2007 6:19 AM
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06-22-2007 11:20 PM


Preposterous! It's impossible to DISprove anything. All we can do is prove something to be something other than X. We cannot disprove Y. We cannot disprove the Earth to be 6000 years old, but we CAN prove it to be 4.5 billion years old, which gives us good reason to doubt the date of 6000, but science never says "Earth =! 6000" instead, it say "Earth = 4.5 billion"
Jon

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Jon
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Message 54 of 310 (408804)
07-05-2007 1:41 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by Phat
07-04-2007 6:22 AM


Impossible to disprove anything? Thats quite a stretch!
For example, we can say with a high degree of scientific certainty (based on our current assumptions) that starlight is coming at us from a greater distance than 6000 light years
You seem to start out saying "Oh, but Jon-boy, it is possible to disprove things..." but then you end with an example that doesn't support that. We've positively proven X (starlight is coming from greater 6000 light years away), but we've also proven T (starlight is coming from greater than 19 light years away). We've never really disproven any of these dates; we've just not proven them. I've yet to see any scientist really set out to disprove the Earth being 15 seconds old. Instead, scientists look to find just how old the damn thing really is.
It's not that we've scientifically shattered and disproven all the claims of the Bible; such claims just have yet to be backed up. If I tell you I'm watching Wheel of Fortune, do you think I'd ever leave evidence of not doing something I'm not doing? Would I instead leave evidence I had a grill out with my friends?
Jon

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