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To: WildHorseCrash
" I am still interested in your answers to the other three questions."

I answered your first three questions with one answer that is equally applicable to all. Your fourth question is a strawman. You jump over the same cliff as Radio Astronomer when you try to assert that the Bible makes statements that it does not. No statement in the Bible has ever been found to be false on complete examination; only in the flawed imagination of the imperfect reader.

The epistles of Enoch are the oldest written record of the motion of the moon and sun relative to the earth, but Enoch does not say that the sun revolves around the earth; he merely describes the motion from our point of reference. In fact his writings contain vague descriptions of the solar system, and also of distant bodies. Paul writing in Hebrews ch 11 even aludes to the atomic structure of matter.

"Other people have purported to have "debunked" Sherman's work"

Nobody has published any tabular data that assails Sherman's assertions. You will find only emotional retoric and carping standing against thousands of hours of number-crunching on fast mainframes.

75 posted on 09/22/2005 2:02:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: editor-surveyor
I answered your first three questions with one answer that is equally applicable to all. Your fourth question is a strawman. You jump over the same cliff as Radio Astronomer when you try to assert that the Bible makes statements that it does not.

That answer, as I've said, is rather weak in my mind, but you're entitled to believe what you want. BUT, the fourth question isn't a strawman. It is a hypothetical.

I am not saying that the bible says any particular thing. I am merely asking you what you would believe if there were something in the bible that clearly conflicted with your extra-biblical knowledge. Would you believe the words in the bible, regardless of how crazy they seemed to you, or would you believe what your extra-biblical sources told you to be the case? In other words, when it comes to the bible text, can you ever conceive of a situation where your reason would overcome your faith, or would your faith always win out, regardless of how unreasonable that may seem on the surface?

Surely, you are not saying that you don't have the imagination and mental abilities to imagine yourself in this situation and to tell me what you would think, right?

79 posted on 09/22/2005 2:29:46 PM PDT by WildHorseCrash
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