(June 18, 2012 at 11:28 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Can you provide any reason to think such a junta of atheists has managed to pull off and maintain such a hoax for so long? Can you even suggest a clear motive?
That "thud" you just heard was the burden of proof landing in your backyard. Good luck.
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What would you consider a convincing peice of evidence for the biblical God?
Let's see if your answer would be inconsistant with how you've determined other things to be true.
It's not mine but I did find it interesting.
A "convincing piece of evidence", by which I mean something that would make me consider that Yahweh is real, might include magical artifacts like Paul's handkerchief. Use this piece of cloth to heal people under the scrutiny of medical peer review with repeatable blind tests that help to rule out the placebo effect.
Alternatively, you could perform healing rituals that Jesus promised those of faith could do (Mark 16). Again, this would need to be performed as a series repeatable blind tests with a control group to rule out the placebo effect, performed under the scrutiny of medical peer review.
I find it necessary to remark that Christianity offers no evidence of any kind, aside from philoso-babble.
Do you realize that when you observe scientific evidence you are interpreting it by your presuppositions? That would be your worldview which everyone has. I see you want repeatable blind tests to prove the healing, but I see this as a double standard since you haven't applied this to your presupposed beliefs.
There is plenty of scientific evidence which has the bible as its foundation contradicting evolutionist claims. Many things have already been reveled prior to secular science re-discovering them. The hydraulic cycle, earth as a sphere floating in space, which was written 3000B.C. and not rediscovered by Copernicus until the 1400's A.D. C-14 found in layers believed to be millions of yrs. old. (C-14 can't last that long.) The bible mentions the deep springs in the ocean before deep sea exploration. Coagulation of blood begins on the eighth day for a newborn (before secular medical science understood). Fresh (not permineralized, meaning unfossilized) dinosaur bones have been found. Those dinosaur bones would have decayed if not fossilized way before millions of yrs. and could only last in that condition for thousands.
The list goes on. The debate on origins is a philosophical one whether you like it or not. Experts agree on this, but you are welcome to disagree.
James Holmes acted consistent with what evolution teaches. He evolved from an animal, and when he murdered those people, He acted like one. You can't say he's wrong since evolution made him that way.
