RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 16, 2018 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2018 at 10:59 pm by Amarok.)
(May 16, 2018 at 10:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Oh that's not even best example of such a myth/. There are lots of myth of charters being "witnessed " to do grand things and even historians to boast of it . Because just because your a historian does not mean you don't believe in the culture myths of your time . Many Roman historians accepted the tale Romulus and Remus as historic fact(May 16, 2018 at 10:22 pm)CDF47 Wrote: They human wolf like person/tyrant has the free will choice to act how they do. They choose to be wolves. The regular animal wolf is a pretty impressive creature I agree. I am a fan of wolves, dogs,...
Sorry but hard for me to take serious infidels.org as a citation. Seems biased to me. No matter what I post you try to refute it.
That's how we feel about your fucking bible.
Nonetheless, something you said reminded me of this passage.
Quote:Fifty years after the Persian Wars ended in 479 BC Herodotus the Halicarnassian asked numerous eyewitnesses and their children about the things that happened in those years and then wrote a book about it. Though he often shows a critical and skeptical mind, sometimes naming his sources or even questioning their reliability when he has suspicious or conflicting accounts, he nevertheless reports without a hint of doubt that the temple of Delphi magically defended itself with animated armaments, lightning bolts, and collapsing cliffs; the sacred olive Fifty years after the Persian Wars ended in 479 BC Herodotus the Halicarnassian asked numerous eyewitnesses and their children about the things that happened in those years and then wrote a book about it. Though he often shows a critical and skeptical mind, sometimes naming his sources or even questioning their reliability when he has suspicious or conflicting accounts, he nevertheless reports without a hint of doubt that the temple of Delphi magically defended itself with animated armaments, lightning bolts, and collapsing cliffs; the sacred olive tree of Athens, though burned by the Persians, grew a new shoot an arm's length in a single day; a miraculous flood-tide wiped out an entire Persian contingent after they desecrated an image of Poseidon; a horse gave birth to a rabbit; and a whole town witnessed a mass resurrection of cooked fish!
Do you believe these things happened? Well, why not? Herodotus was an educated man, a critical historian, and he consulted eyewitnesses, and he clearly saw nothing to doubt in these events.1 So why should we? If you're smart, reasonably educated, and honest, you'll have to admit your doubts here are rather strong. And I'm sure if someone came knocking on your door, insisting these things were true, you'd defend your doubts as entirely reasonable.
Richard Carrier, Chapter 11 The Christian Delusion edited by John Loftus
So what say you? Do you accept the reported miracles by Herodotus?
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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