RE: I am a Catholic, ask me a question!
August 6, 2009 at 10:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2009 at 11:02 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
How has the bible "been proven scientifically unsound" and what does it even mean?
Are you serious?
What about "wrong"? Beginning (ahem) with Genesis: EG That every species on earth could fit in to a craft the size of the arc as described the bible.
Before you go dismissing Genesis as allegorical please remember that Jesus himself stated The Torah is literally true.
In terms of 'scientific accuracy" (ie verifiable by evidence) I can't actually think of any specific biblical "scientific claims" (cosmology and geography for example) which are actually correct. The bible is also notoriously inaccurate as history.
EG:
Not only do Christians have no idea of the actual dates of Jesus' birth and death,there is in fact no evidence at all,of his existence.
Biblical claims long accepted as factual,such as The Exodus, are increasingly coming to be seen as myth.The actual age of the faith we call Judaism is being reduced to around 800 BCE.
To say the bible is is unscientific is a redundant phrase. The Torah is the Mythology of a bronze tribe of goat herders and their nasty little mountain god "El". It was not written down until the first century BCE.The Gospels are the mythology of a poor little rabbi and putative founder of a minor Jewish sect who may or may not have existed.
Are you serious?
What about "wrong"? Beginning (ahem) with Genesis: EG That every species on earth could fit in to a craft the size of the arc as described the bible.
Before you go dismissing Genesis as allegorical please remember that Jesus himself stated The Torah is literally true.
In terms of 'scientific accuracy" (ie verifiable by evidence) I can't actually think of any specific biblical "scientific claims" (cosmology and geography for example) which are actually correct. The bible is also notoriously inaccurate as history.
EG:
Not only do Christians have no idea of the actual dates of Jesus' birth and death,there is in fact no evidence at all,of his existence.
Biblical claims long accepted as factual,such as The Exodus, are increasingly coming to be seen as myth.The actual age of the faith we call Judaism is being reduced to around 800 BCE.
To say the bible is is unscientific is a redundant phrase. The Torah is the Mythology of a bronze tribe of goat herders and their nasty little mountain god "El". It was not written down until the first century BCE.The Gospels are the mythology of a poor little rabbi and putative founder of a minor Jewish sect who may or may not have existed.
