(January 6, 2014 at 12:04 pm)themonkeyman Wrote: Ok I am going to take the christian line on this and say how can you know that the Genesis accounts did not happen? You must understand that back then Oral Tradition was the medium of sharing knowledge. So if you are looking for a scientific answer then please present the test that we need to determine weather or not two humans named Adam and Eve existed.
No, we don't. The existence of Adam and Eve is not as likely as it is unlikely.
Quote:Making the argument that the Bible provides circular reasoning is incorrect as the bible is just the compilation of different texts found at different times in history. Which were at there time independent of other texts. Its the equivalent of trying to say science cannot support science as its circular.
Again incorrect. Science can support science because science is the result of experimentation, observation and independently-verified data. The Bible cannot support the Bible because the Bible is a naked assertion. It is based upon nothing verifiably-factual.
Quote:Sure fossils are scattered around but this gives no more proof than the texts of the bible being scattered around. As ultimately we are relying on a computer to say it happened when we have no other way of knowing.
Extremely ignorant. It insults the efforts of scientists to say that their methods are no better than a bunch of crazy and ignorant savages whose bizarre opinions would mean nothing if they weren't spread across the world like a virus.
