(March 9, 2022 at 9:22 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote:(March 9, 2022 at 6:42 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Just so I don't start sounding like a broken record, I'll explain why these aren't theories. All proper theories must be testable, falsifiable, and predictive, amongst other traits. By definition, any statement containing and all-powerful, unknowable, undetectable deity immediately removes the possibility of testability, falsifiability, or predictability. As such, these are properly viewed as statements of faith and are the opposite of theories in many of the basic ways that matter. If you would be so kind as to make the distinction I will return the favour and not quote the Book of Phylogenies as scripture.
Stories about gods and what they do are called Just-so stories or just so stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
It just means that it is a story. The only thing you can do is listen to it. There isn't anything to verify.
That poster mentioned Ken Ham which is a YEC. Modern science has blown away YEC during the 19 th century. And I think MichaelAngelo was also someone who claimed that the layers you find in the ground, the rocks, is evidence of an ancient Earth but there wasn't a large science community during his time so science doing advance much during his time.
I prefer to think of them as just bad stories. It's clear that they're woefully out of date (stoning people is no longer morally acceptable) and have never seen a marginally competent editor. If there had been dinosaurs in Job it would have been an improvement. Seriously though, Ken Ham and the YEC were what got you? Once he started mentioning dinosaurs in the Bible those fools were just icing on the cake.
