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To: Jaguarbhzrd; taxesareforever
This is reality, this is how science works.

When you have some solid evidence, something that you can literally put your hands on, like a fossil

Yes, I can literally put my hands on evidence of the Big bang, just as I can literally put my hands on the evidence for the theory of evolution.

No you can't.

Don't forget other inconvenient scientific theories like relativity, string theory, gravitation, strong and weak molecular forces, black holes,... There's a whole plethora of things science investigates that cannot be held in ones hand and research papers, pictures, and graphs are not the same as an actual physical object.

I can literally put my hands on the measurements, on the pictures, on the peer reviewed reports by scientists.

If those things are adequate evidence for scientists, the the written testimony of people who lived with Jesus and talked to Him is adequate to use as hard evidence that He lived and died and is everything He said He was, so when He said that God created the heavens and the earth, it has all the weight of the scientific peer reviewed research papers that scientists put their faith in.

920 posted on 09/26/2006 6:05:14 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
If those things are adequate evidence for scientists, the the written testimony of people who lived with Jesus and talked to Him is adequate to use as hard evidence that He lived and died and is everything He said He was, so when He said that God created the heavens and the earth, it has all the weight of the scientific peer reviewed research papers that scientists put their faith in.

Where may these written testimonies be found? What peer review exists for these written testimonies? How can the events described in these testimonies be reproduced for independent observation by others?
921 posted on 09/26/2006 6:07:22 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: metmom
If those things are adequate evidence for scientists, the the written testimony of people who lived with Jesus and talked to Him is adequate to use as hard evidence that He lived and died and is everything He said He was, so when He said that God created the heavens and the earth, it has all the weight of the scientific peer reviewed research papers that scientists put their faith in.

Absolutely unbelievable, no, written testimony is not the same as scientifically peer reviewed papers.

Any scientist, anywhere, can take those papers, and experiments, and repeat them, again, again, and again, and if those experiments or papers are true, the scientist will come up with the same result, over, and over and over again.

Quite a big difference, between a peer reviewed scientific paper, and the bible. A peer reviewed paper can be verified, you can literally verify it yourself, if you have the equipment.

you have to take on faith, the bible and what it says. It is impossible to verify it, in any way, shape, or form.

950 posted on 09/26/2006 8:41:07 AM PDT by Jaguarbhzrd
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