| kevin the wiiite said: I have a big problem with one thing people are saying - "The bible is full of fictional stories." Explain to me the thin layer of oil found throughout the entire middle east without their being a catastrophic flood to destroy and cover up that much forested area.. That much oil cannot be explained by a single layer of forest being destroyed in a single event. It requires many many cycles of biomass growing and dying at a rate beyond the ability for it to decompose. The formation of petroleum happens on a geological time scale and certainly has not occured on a 'biblical' scale. Explain Josephus' writings on the destruction of the Jews by Nero. Never heard of this one, link me to something that explains it please? Explain the Egyptian record which tells a similar story of an enslaved people being let go by Pharaoh. While I don't know of this record, nobody is arguing that the bible is void of historical events. Possibly the Pharaoh did let enslaved people go, it doesn't mean there is a supernatural diety that caused it. Explain the remains of the city of Jericho that was sacked by the Jews in the bible. (The walls being blown down by trumpet blasts even has its basis in science with natural frequency!) ... While natural frequency is real there is no way to use trumpets to blow down a wall with it. Also Jericho was almost certainly abandoned at the point in time when the conquest was supposed to have happened. Explain why 4 people would write entirely different accounts of the life of Jesus without having actually seen it. Four people who had no contact with each other and no access to the others writings right? You can choose whether or not to believe in God, but the bible is as historical as any other ancient writing. (a nice parallel is the recent discovery of the city of Troy proving the historical basis of the Iliad and the Odyssey) That's a hilariously accurate parallel. While the Iliad and the Odyssey are broadly based around a historical event (the war with Troy) the vast majority of the book is fiction, with stories of the Greek gods and of heroes who never existed. Carbon 14 is absolutely useless as a dating technique because nobody knows how much carbon 14 you start with in ancient bone, or how much dissolves into the system while the bone turns to rock. It's much better proven that human bones don't even last 2,000 years in most cases because of all the roman tombs found with only dust where there was once a body. The oldest of bones preserved by ice where bacteria are rarely around to decompose anything are found to be about 10,000 years old. They found plenty of human bones at say Pompeii http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH8-4HHP5B4-1&_user=10&_coverDate=04/30/2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1575801940&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7e5eb0b8d991fa5f53f72588832a763a&searchtype=a And what person would put themselves up against this evidence? One who doesn't want to submit to a higher power. It's ironic, the Democrats, who generally are less theistic, (Not to put all democrats in one box) don't want to submit to a higher power, and yet constantly increase the size of government. Oh - and you can put me in the box with the other Protestant Christians here. I don't play GTA IV and don't swear on Halo like a five year old who just learned some new four letter words. |
I realise you aren't going to care about any of this post, but anyway.
Also could somebody give a biblical explanation for how we can see light from stars that are millions of lightyears away?
