(November 18, 2012 at 12:36 am)Rhythm Wrote: Look how quickly we abandon history, claiming to place Babel in time (or Noahs flood) becomes meaningless, all reference to an actual place in time must have been pretext. May as well place it in a time far far in the future. Maybe in a galaxy far, far away.....HG Wells "The Time Machine" places a complicated mechanical toy in the distant past..and there certainly isn't any definitive proof that there weren't complicated mechanical toys in the distant past.I don't abandon history - just like I don't abandon science when I find a problem with the predictions of QM or the predictions of GR. History is full of "conflicting accounts". In the fifth century BC Herodotus told us that slaves built the Pyramids, and we believed this lie for 2,500 years!
Atheists used to claim that crucifixion wasn't used a roman method of execution, and that there was no evidence of nails being used in crucifixion. They used to point out the fact that there were no depictions of the execution method dated to when it was supposedly in use. As if that isn't "abandoning history"!
