Posted on 11/17/2008 4:59:05 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
Bill Maher, on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher," frequently refers to the Old Testament of the Bible as the Book of Jewish Fairy Tales.
The description might anger the pious and the fundamentalists, but guess what? Maher's close to the truth.
A visually stunning two-hour special edition of "Nova" examines decades of archaeological studies that contradict much of what is in the Bible.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Maybe the good folks at http://home1.gte.net/bridavis/timeline.htm believe the earth was created 6,422 years ago. But, the Bible says no such thing.
You mean that the story of Noah’s arc and Adam & Eve are fairy tales? What’s next, they will be saying Santa Clause is not real?
Unfortunately, a lot of the people on this board can’t tell the difference between an allegory and a factual events.
This is the reality :
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452365,00.html
Thanks for the ping!
"Where's the evidence? Now, the word God is used to cover a wide variety of very different ideas, ranging maybe from the idea of an outsized light-skinned male with a long white beard who sits in a throne in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow--for which there is no evidence, none at all--to the view of Einstein, of Spinoza, which is essentially that God is the sum total of the laws of nature. And since there are laws of nature ... if that's what you mean by God, then of course there's a God. So everything depends on the definition of God."
"An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God."
Hopefully he found the answer to his questions.
“The Bible says no such thing”.
Ditto: In my study of the Bible I have come to the conclusion that the “gap theory” completely explains the problem of a “young earth”. One thing is certain, it is impossible that so many writers, over so many centuries, from different backgrounds, could put together a “novel” that tells one history, one prophecy, and one conclusion that fits like a glove, without the inspiration of a “higher being”. I know that being as “the Holy Spirit”.
The OT missed on the global flood. That has not been found by archaeologists.
A flood in the Black Sea a bit over 7,000 years ago was probably the origin for the story. Archaeologists have found that flood, but no evidence for a global flood.
Yes, the science came later, but the technology the Chinese had developed was the foundation, not the Judeo-Christian myths.
True.
Then why didn't the Renaissance start in the 1200's? Why did it take over 200 years and knowledge and information from the Chinese before it actually started?
Huh?
Constantanople fell in 1453. The archives of antiquity (ancient Greece, mainly) that had been meticulously preserved by the Easter Orthodox Church was then transported to the West.
Then, the Renaissance happened.
The Chinese had NOTHING whatsoever to do with the Renaissance.
I think that what I said was quite clear. If you want to discuss weaving, etc., I’m sure others will accomodate you.
This is a young earth creationist estimate. The Bible doesn’t specify an age of the earth.
Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my secret faults. -- Ps. 19:19I used to fight with that verse, until I met some people who were more virtuous than I and learned (a) that I had been sinning without knowing it; and (b) that those sins hurt me as much or more than the ones of which I was aware.
It is hard to pray for insight. I find so much that is painful and shameful to know.
LOL You are obviously confused. Constantinople fell to the Christians in 1204 that is when they sacked, looted and burned the library.
When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 any knowledge they had left at the time went to the Muslims, not the Christians.
Well if you don't think that bellows, foundries, steal manufacturing, celestial mechanics, accurate Calenders, etc. had anything to do with the establishment of science then I can't help you.
Constantinople was founded by Constantine and was a Christian city until being taken by Mehmed II in 1453.
The ability to make and manufacture is not the same as the deliberate, intentional study of phenomenon under different conditions, based on the assumption that the outcome will be consistent and lead to further knowledge about that consistency.
I agree. You can’t “help” me. Thanks anyway.
This is one situation where you shouldn’t cast your pearls before swine.
Yes, the consistency and predictability are based on the assumptions of a Creator with a reasonable, consistent and reliable mind.
No, you will never break through the atheist hard headedness of some to admit this.
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