The Bible as Science

[PoliticalChic]

To me, this is just astounding.....as proof that the Bible is not merely the conjecture of a primitive people....

How is it that folks living in the desert just happened to imagine the events in Genesis, with the course of creation aligning with what modern cosmology believes occurred????


Let's take a closer look.



6. First, there are the archaeological discoveries that verify Biblical event.

"This small sampling of archaeological discoveries made in relatively recent years have shown the Bible to be an accurate, reliable document. There have always been those who doubt the biblical record, but never before has so much doubt existed in the face of so much proof!

Contrary to what some might say, the Bible and science are not opposites. Science has proved this fact. You don’t have to reject one in order to believe the other."
The Bible: Legend or Literal?


7. And, in fact proving this view, Andrew Parker's "The Genesis Enigma" shows that the events named in Genesis for the creation of the universe, follow the very same order that contemporary science proposes.....



The Old Testament was written, although not compiled, almost three millennia ago. It is extraordinary that the writer of the creation account in Genesis, chapter one, got it right in his exposition of the series of events: his sequence turns out to be scientifically accurate in terms of contemporary knowledge.

The images in that writer’s mind of how our planet and life came to be must have seemed curious for the knowledge and experience of the time! Yet….he presented it as though it had been dictated to him, as though he had been spoken to by God.

If it is not evidence for the God, then the author of Genesis 1, or Moses, perhaps, must have understood that
the universe formed first,
then the seas appeared on earth,
and that life forms were photosynthetic.

Following that, he had to have realized that an eye evolved in an early animal in the geological past, which triggered the evolution of all the major groups of animals that exist today.

Still further, he must have felt that all of this occurred in the seas, before animals moved onto land, and only when they did move out of the water did mammals and birds evolve.
See "The Genesis Enigma," by Andrew Parker, chapter 9.



This from a writer who lived in the desert.

What an incredibly lucky guess! What a considerable stroke of good fortune!

The alternative explanation is ....divine intervention.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....

That should be good, I always loved the story of Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Right next to those transitional fossils that would help the theory of evolution

It's hilarious how the creationists think because they find ONE 'hole' in the theory of evolution, they can justify tossing the whole thing in the trash,

but one, or a hundred, or a thousand holes in the Creation 'theory' are meaningless and of no relevance to its validity.

It's called a theory for a good reason, dumb deer

And Creation myths are called myths for a good reason, too.

 

[Asclepias]

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....

That should be good, I always loved the story of Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Right next to those transitional fossils that would help the theory of evolution

It's hilarious how the creationists think because they find ONE 'hole' in the theory of evolution, they can justify tossing the whole thing in the trash,

but one, or a hundred, or a thousand holes in the Creation 'theory' are meaningless and of no relevance to its validity.

It's called a theory for a good reason, dumb deer

Yes, evolution is called a theory and is the most widely accepted theory because it's the one that makes the most sense.

Google 'sense' if I've lost you with that.

DNA proves its more than just a theory. Its a truth with some pieces missing due to human lack of knowledge.

 

[Asclepias]

To me, this is just astounding.....as proof that the Bible is not merely the conjecture of a primitive people....

How is it that folks living in the desert just happened to imagine the events in Genesis, with the course of creation aligning with what modern cosmology believes occurred????


Let's take a closer look.



6. First, there are the archaeological discoveries that verify Biblical event.

"This small sampling of archaeological discoveries made in relatively recent years have shown the Bible to be an accurate, reliable document. There have always been those who doubt the biblical record, but never before has so much doubt existed in the face of so much proof!

Contrary to what some might say, the Bible and science are not opposites. Science has proved this fact. You don’t have to reject one in order to believe the other."
The Bible: Legend or Literal?


7. And, in fact proving this view, Andrew Parker's "The Genesis Enigma" shows that the events named in Genesis for the creation of the universe, follow the very same order that contemporary science proposes.....



The Old Testament was written, although not compiled, almost three millennia ago. It is extraordinary that the writer of the creation account in Genesis, chapter one, got it right in his exposition of the series of events: his sequence turns out to be scientifically accurate in terms of contemporary knowledge.

The images in that writer’s mind of how our planet and life came to be must have seemed curious for the knowledge and experience of the time! Yet….he presented it as though it had been dictated to him, as though he had been spoken to by God.

If it is not evidence for the God, then the author of Genesis 1, or Moses, perhaps, must have understood that
the universe formed first,
then the seas appeared on earth,
and that life forms were photosynthetic.

Following that, he had to have realized that an eye evolved in an early animal in the geological past, which triggered the evolution of all the major groups of animals that exist today.

Still further, he must have felt that all of this occurred in the seas, before animals moved onto land, and only when they did move out of the water did mammals and birds evolve.
See "The Genesis Enigma," by Andrew Parker, chapter 9.



This from a writer who lived in the desert.

What an incredibly lucky guess! What a considerable stroke of good fortune!

The alternative explanation is ....divine intervention.

Sounds to me like African folklore to be honest. Long ago science and religion was one. Man was made from the earth and named Adam. In Hebrew Adamah is the word that describes the color of dark reddish brown. The color of so many Black people and the color of the earth from which they were made.

 

[PoliticalChic]

 

[del]

Or,....Science: A Witness Attesting To Biblical Accuracy
Science is the collection of correct knowledge. Whether it is 'correct' is determined via empirical data, and the scientific method.

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....


First.....the reason this post is necessary: the political milieu.

1.To be an adherent to the various iterations of the Left....Communism, Fascism, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, or Nazism....one must engage in a full court press against the Bible, and against religion.

Here's the view:
a. "Just because any religious idea, any idea of any god at all, any flirtation even with a god, is the most inexpressible foulness, particularly tolerantly (and often even favourably) accepted by the democratic bourgeoisie—for that very reason it is the most dangerous foulness, the most shameful “infection.” A million physical sins, dirty tricks, acts of violence and infections are much more easily discovered by the crowd, and therefore are much less dangerous, than the nubile, spiritual idea of god, dressed up in the most attractive “ideological” costumes."
Letter from Lenin to Maxim Gorky,
Written on November 13 or 14, 1913 Lenin 55. TO MAXIM GORKY

Here's the reason for the view:
b. "There is no God
This concept is an essential element of Marxism. As Lenin stated: "Atheism is a natural and inseparable portion of Marxism, of the theory and practice of Scientific Socialism." If God exists and is in supreme command of the universe, He possesses discretionary power, and His actions cannot always be calculated accurately in advance. The whole edifice of Marxism collapses.
When Marx and the Communists deny the existence of God, they simultaneously deny the authority of the Ten Commandments, the existence of absolute standards of right and wrong, of good and evil; and man is left on the playing fields of the universe without a referee, without a book of rules. The winning side in any conflict can decide on what rules of conduct to apply. Morality is the creation of the victor.
The Schwarz Report | Essays

Most scientists believe in God.


2. One of the oblique attacks is by atheistic/Marxist academics....many are referred to as 'historians'....who make a career out of attacks on the historicity of the Bible. The subtext is that if events in the Bible can be cast as false, well....perhaps the less astute would agree with the Left that the rules for life must be as well.



Archaeology, though has often sunk that boat.
As in this case: King Belshazzar.

"Of all the books of the Bible, perhaps none has suffered so many attacks from the historical critical school as the Book of Daniel. Virtually every story in the book has been derided as a fanciful post-Exile invention."
The Belshazzar Problem

This, for example:
"Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age" (Dan. 5:1).

"And being now drunk he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver which Nebuchadnezzar his father had brought away out of the temple" (Dan. 5:2).

"That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain. And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom" (Dan. 5:31).



So....according to the Bible, Belshazzar was King of Babylonians, son of Nebuchadnezzar, and he was killed by the Persians.

a. "Since the 19th century, some historians such as Robert Dick Wilson and W. H. Stevenson have disputed Belshazzar's reign as a king."
Belshazzar - Wikipedia



So....short of calling 'GhostBusters,' who ya' gonna believe?
I'll answer that next.

oh, chunky, you're a pistol

 

[expat_panama]

...Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Asimoz (Atheist leader, scientist, writer) did a great job presenting the case for Noah's flood as history in his Guide To The Bible (page 38):

...a world-wide deluge, but there is no record of any such phenomenon...

...not to say, however, that the Biblical story of the Flood was not based on some actual, but local, flood in Sumerian history...

...In 1929, the English archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley reported finding water-deposited layers as much as ten feet thick in his excavations near the Euphrates. Such deposits were not found everywhere in the region and Sumerian culture showed no over-all break. Nevertheless, the evidence exists that somewhere about 3000 b.c. there were indeed drastic floods...

...with great loss of life will be said to have covered "all the world," meaning the entire region....

...would accept the phrase "all the world" literally and reduce themselves to needless speculations on the impossible. (A well-known example of this is the statement frequently met with among the ancient historians that Alexander the Great "conquered the world" and then wept for "other worlds to conquer."

...In the Biblical story, Noah's ark floats on the floodwaters for months. The waters slowly recede— Genesis 8:4. And the ark rested . . . upon the mountains of Ararat. Notice that a specific mountain peak is not named. There is no mention of a "Mount Ararat." Instead the Bible clearly states "the mountains of Ararat," implying Ararat to be a region or nation within which there was a mountain range on which the ark came to rest.​

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The Gospels are absolut...

 

[Old Rocks]

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....

That should be good, I always loved the story of Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Right next to those transitional fossils that would help the theory of evolution

It's hilarious how the creationists think because they find ONE 'hole' in the theory of evolution, they can justify tossing the whole thing in the trash,

but one, or a hundred, or a thousand holes in the Creation 'theory' are meaningless and of no relevance to its validity.

It's called a theory for a good reason, dumb deer

And I call you stupid and ignorant for good reason. Look up what theory means in science.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, satisfying and reassuring".
~~ Carl Sagan

 

[PoliticalChic]

Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The Gospels are absolut...

Have you read his book?

I have.

He comes to the subject with a bias, and a bigotry.

He's a dunce....as are you.



But perhaps you can help him get his job back at CNN....he was fired.

 

[undertherqadar]

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....

That should be good, I always loved the story of Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Right next to those transitional fossils that would help the theory of evolution

I like the story of the sun stopping and dancing in the sky in fatima or a cookie turning into a god when people eat one

 

[undertherqadar]

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....

That should be good, I always loved the story of Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Right next to those transitional fossils that would help the theory of evolution

It's hilarious how the creationists think because they find ONE 'hole' in the theory of evolution, they can justify tossing the whole thing in the trash,

but one, or a hundred, or a thousand holes in the Creation 'theory' are meaningless and of no relevance to its validity.

It's called a theory for a good reason, dumb deer

who is the dumb one now?



"Just a Theory": 7 Misused Science Words

 

[PoliticalChic]

The historical accuracy of the Bible is proven by the science of archaeology....and, the, astounding as it is, the modern views of cosmology, the study of the origin of the universe, also verifies the Bible.
I'll get to that....

That should be good, I always loved the story of Noah's ark, have archeaologists finally found it?

Right next to those transitional fossils that would help the theory of evolution

It's hilarious how the creationists think because they find ONE 'hole' in the theory of evolution, they can justify tossing the whole thing in the trash,

but one, or a hundred, or a thousand holes in the Creation 'theory' are meaningless and of no relevance to its validity.

It's called a theory for a good reason, dumb deer

who is the dumb one now?



"Just a Theory": 7 Misused Science Words

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The Gospels are absolut...

Have you read his book?

I have.

He comes to the subject with a bias, and a bigotry.

He's a dunce....as are you.



But perhaps you can help him get his job back at CNN....he was fired.

Sorry my man...if you turned in a history paper with the amount of inaccuracies found in the Bible, you would receive an "F". That's a fact.

And if you threw a little fit and wrote a list of all of the accuracies in the paper and shoved it in your professor's face, then demanded not just that you not receive an "F", but instead receive an "A+"... she would laugh at you and kick you out. Also a fact.

Enjoy screaming into your little echo chamber...

 

[Wuwei]

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

That's not hard to believe since more complex animals take many many generations for visible change.

However viruses and bacteria continually exchange DNA and transmute very rapidly. Yes, that's not the same thing, but it does show that the complexity of radical change in DNA can happen naturally.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The Gospels are absolut...

Have you read his book?

I have.

He comes to the subject with a bias, and a bigotry.

He's a dunce....as are you.



But perhaps you can help him get his job back at CNN....he was fired.

Sorry my man...if you turned in a history paper with the amount of inaccuracies found in the Bible, you would receive an "F". That's a fact.

And if you threw a little hissy fit and wrote a list of all of the accuracies in the paper and shoved it in your professor's face, she would laugh at you and kick you out. Also a fact.

Enjoy screaming into your little echo chamber, dummy....

So you haven't read his book.

You're dismissed.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

That's not hard to believe since more complex animals take many many generations for visible change.

However viruses and bacteria continually exchange DNA and transmute very rapidly. Yes, that's not the same thing, but it does show that the complexity of radical change in DNA can happen naturally.

"...can happen..."


Yet, the theory of evolution is taught as a fact.


And dunces accept it as such.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The Gospels are absolut...

Have you read his book?

I have.

He comes to the subject with a bias, and a bigotry.

He's a dunce....as are you.



But perhaps you can help him get his job back at CNN....he was fired.

Sorry my man...if you turned in a history paper with the amount of inaccuracies found in the Bible, you would receive an "F". That's a fact.

And if you threw a little hissy fit and wrote a list of all of the accuracies in the paper and shoved it in your professor's face, she would laugh at you and kick you out. Also a fact.

Enjoy screaming into your little echo chamber, dummy....

So you haven't read his book.

You're dismissed.

You just dismissed yourself from facing the facts. Predictably.

The Bible is rife with historical inaccuracies. That's a basic fact. No amount of self-soothing word salad from you is ever going to change that basic fact.

Enjoy!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The Gospels are absolut...

Have you read his book?

I have.

He comes to the subject with a bias, and a bigotry.

He's a dunce....as are you.



But perhaps you can help him get his job back at CNN....he was fired.

Sorry my man...if you turned in a history paper with the amount of inaccuracies found in the Bible, you would receive an "F". That's a fact.

And if you threw a little hissy fit and wrote a list of all of the accuracies in the paper and shoved it in your professor's face, she would laugh at you and kick you out. Also a fact.

Enjoy screaming into your little echo chamber, dummy....

So you haven't read his book.

You're dismissed.

You just dismissed yourself from facing the facts. Predictably.

The Bible is rife with historical inaccuracies. That's a basic fact. No amount of self-soothing word salad from you is ever going to change that basic fact.

Enjoy!

In this life, one has a basic choice from which to get their morality....the Bible or the NYTimes.

We have each made our choice, haven't we.