RE: Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?
January 7, 2012 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2012 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
RC dating works for some things, not so much for others. There are plenty of alternatives, and each has a range associated with it (including a range of suitable applications and error). The problems with RC dating (and other radiometric dating methods, as well as some other fun types used for specific things like pottery) is that they don't give us a picture of the past that matches the fairy tales we created to explain the same out of ignorance. This has nothing to do with the accuracy of these methods, which isn't even remotely in question.
This same argument can be used in the service of Zues or Lamfada. No one doubted that they existed either. They did not. They do not. No one has to provide you with anything, your god-man, your task. By the by, I don't think that Mohammed or Buddha existed either (if you'd like to take up those banners as well be my guest).
Wait, textbooks are good when they give jesus the go, but evolution, the age of the cosmos, and radiometric dating(also in textbooks) are flat out wrong?
This same argument can be used in the service of Zues or Lamfada. No one doubted that they existed either. They did not. They do not. No one has to provide you with anything, your god-man, your task. By the by, I don't think that Mohammed or Buddha existed either (if you'd like to take up those banners as well be my guest).
Wait, textbooks are good when they give jesus the go, but evolution, the age of the cosmos, and radiometric dating(also in textbooks) are flat out wrong?
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