Quote:It is if god told them to write that.
And the evidence that God told them to write it is?
Quote:You may be confusing evidence with proof. You may be confusing strong evidence with weak evidence. In any case, if the Bible is true then it is very good evidence to support the hypothesis that god exists. Much of the Bible is corroborated by geology, geography, archeology, literature, etc.
Geology, geography, archeology, literature, are solid areas of study.
If Archaeology says that the Kingdom of David existed, how is that evidence that God exists? Archaeology also shows that the Kingdom of the Maya existed. Does that mean that their gods were real? Where does geology corroborate the Bible? I can't point to several geologic events that dispute certainn notable tales in the Bible. For instance, there is NO geologic evidence that a global flood ever occurred. For instance, the destruction of Jericho was not caused by Israelites blowing their trumpets. Jericho sits on the Dead Sea fault, which is a very active strike slip fault much like the San Andreas fault. And there is a lot of geologic and archaeological evidence that Jericho was destroyed several times by large earthquakes, and likely will again sometime in the future.
Quote:Explain why that is not evidence, without assuming beforehand that Santa Claus does not exist.
Seriously?
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
