RE: Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd)
January 5, 2011 at 8:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2011 at 8:59 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
Ashendant Wrote:Statler Waldorf;113062 Wrote:I just don't find either video very funny or well thought out.What part of it give us the basis of science, the part that says that you can't disobey the book and you should be killed for it, or the part that tells you to go nearest village and kill anyone that isn't a female virgin and kill them, or is it part that the earth is immobile and flat.
As to the "you can't be a scientist and be religious" thing, then then that would disqualify some of the World's greatest scientists, even the father of modern science himself. So of course that is not a valid statement. Religion gives us the very basis for modern science.
These videos are both funny and well though out, in fact why don't you point me a factual error in it(comedy is not an error)
You also failed to comment on my points that proven macroevolution
No where in the Bible does it say the earth is flat, to the contrary it is made quite apparent by several versus that people in those days were well aware of the earth's actual shape.
The Bible gives us the very preconditions for intelligibility that we require to conduct science. We are told that God is truth and God will never contradict himself, this gives us the foundation for all laws of logic. We are also told that God upholds his creation in a consistent manner, this also allows us to expect uniformity in nature and that the future will be consistent with the past. The Bible also gives us the foundations for absolute morality, which allows us to make "should" and "ought" claims which are also necessary for knowledge and science. Given an evolutionary worldview there would be no basis for any of these things and all knowledge would be impossible.
One example of an error in your videos is that the first one asserts that Christians believe dinosaur fossils are a result of the devil. There is no prominent creationist today that believes this. Quite the opposite, we welcome recent findings dealing with dinosaur fossils because they are help to strengthen our model.
Are you still whining about the fact that I don't view youtube as a scholarly source? I suggest you get over it. The fact that I hold my sources to a higher standard than you do should be no reason for you to be upset.
