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To: Moonman62; fishtank
History cannot be proven by the scientific method. It can only be done by reviewing the historic documents of the day, and determining if the witnesses are reliable or not.

Now, the age of historic documents can be verified to a certain extent by the scientific method by using techniques that have repeatable results, and also by comparing them to other documents of that same time.

As for the New Testament, the follow source has this information:

Reliability of the New Testament as Historical Documents

                Caesar—10 copies—1000 year gap

                Tacitus—20 copies—1000 year gap 

                 Plato—7 copies—1200 year gap


24 posted on 02/05/2018 8:31:07 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

“History cannot be proven by the scientific method.”

Your theory is flawed.

Some history can indeed be proven by the scientific method.

Not all of it, but some of it.


36 posted on 02/05/2018 11:33:38 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: kosciusko51
History cannot be proven by the scientific method. It can only be done by reviewing the historic documents of the day, and determining if the witnesses are reliable or not.That is the scientific method in a nutshell - accumulating evidence and judging which is reliable.
41 posted on 02/09/2018 11:07:26 AM PST by AndyJackson
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