RE: Chat with a creationist
May 4, 2012 at 7:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2012 at 7:35 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(May 4, 2012 at 7:11 pm)Abishalom Wrote: ...
http://www.livescience.com/8008-bible-po...gests.html
http://digitaljournal.com/article/285265
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...091035.htm
I'm not very knowledgable in matters of archeology and manuscripts, but my first impression is how does a little fragment of some verses that somewhat matches verses in the Bible, prove any of the OT scriptures existed back then in their final form? I think the most popularly excepted theory of scholars is that the OT was composed from many different earlier sources. What if this fragment is just another one of the early sources?
Basically the logic I'm hearing is:
Fragment found,
Therefore, Bible was developed the way it says it was developed.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
