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Anyone that posts bible passages when discussing science is too far gone to continue to talk science with.

Science is not concerned with your bible, your bible has no effect on it, should have no effect on it, and should not be used in any scientific context.

When every response you give me is praying to God to open my hear, or quoting scripture, I know that you are attempting to witness, not dicuss science.

Sorry, I don't play that. You wish to discuss science, let's discuss it, but leave your religious beliefs at the door, because they have nothing to with science, or are in any way scientific.

Anyone that posts bible passages when discussing science is too far gone to continue to talk science with.

Limiting ones self to only one method of discovering what is true [experimentalism] is limiting your ability to only discover truth found inside a limited sphere of knowledge, and ignoring truth that is outside the sphere, even if the truth inside and outside the sphere are related. This was part of what I meant when I wrote "One reason a conversation is difficult with an evolutionist is there is usually not an agreement on epistemology."

Why is it exactly that any other historical text (Egyptian hieroglyphics, stone carvings, Babylonian writings etc) are in the realm of 'forensic' science, but the bible is off limits? Why is it that when people swear that they swear by the name of Jesus Christ and not Darwin or Dread Scott, or anyone else?

I know that you are attempting to witness, not discuss science.

I am unapologetic about "attempting to witness". When someone argues for evolution, they are "attempting to witness" for their evolutionary religion as well. Claiming that "witnessing" is off limits is demonstrating a desire for bias instead of intellectual objectively or curiousity about the subject.

It should be noted that there are a fair number of interesting scientific concepts from many different scientific fields of study which directly relate to the question of origins in post #260, many of which I personally find particularly interesting.

The Bible, even if you don't believe in it, as those belonging to the Jewish or Christian traditions do, is an ancient text, which includes a great deal of wisdom. I don't see why it should be impermissable to quote from it, if the quotation is relevant, any more than it would be impermissable to quote from Plato or Sophocles.