(December 5, 2010 at 6:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There was an incident some years ago when a fundie crackpot named Bryant Wood tried to use C-14 dating to "prove" Joshua and the Jericho story. Fundies everywhere were trumpeting carbon dating until the British museum re-calibrated the samples and all of a sudden Wood's dates were back where Kathleen Kenyon had placed them.
All of a sudden fundies didn't like C-14 dating anymore.
Christian apologists will only accept an argument if it supports them and they're not embarrassed about inconsistency.
Have you noticed that when you demand contemporary evidence for Jesus, they tell you that people didn't write stuff down back then, a lot got lost, there wasn't the same degree of accuracy or reporting back then, etc.
Then they will tout the Gospel accounts and say "people would have cried 'false' if it wasn't true", as if there were suddenly ninja commando fact checkers ready to pounce on any rabbi writing something that wasn't true.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
