(January 23, 2014 at 11:30 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: If you can provide a thousand or so witnesses to attest to this, then write an account showing the who/what/when/where/why/how's of said goldmine, then teach those thousand or so witnesses said account and that those witnesses would be willing to share it with others even if it costs them their life, and then if your account not only survives but become the most widely purchased/circulated book for the next two thousand or so years... then I'm in.
*Takes a deep breath.*
You can't provide thousands of witnesses, since they're all dead. You can't provide an account explaining anything about creation, because the bible limits itself to "godidit" and never explains how. You can't confirm the existence of the gospel authors, and even if you could you're living in a world where the martyrs of every other religion still exists, so stow this "cost them their life" crap right now. The popularity of a book says nothing about it's factual accuracy, fiction books are popular too.
*Inhales.*
Quote:It also wouldn't hurt if you could work in starting our yearly time numbering system over at 1 coinciding near to the year you were born. We could refer to it as 1 GM.
And the fact that a religiously motivated government, several centuries into your religion, decided to plaster propaganda of it over their measurement of time means what, for the factual accuracy of the accounts?

Quote:With respect to chemical evolution as it relates to the origin of life, chemistry proposes a problem.
You're thinking of abiogenesis, not evolution, genius.

Quote: Life cannot begin in the presence of oxygen molecules and life cannot continue outside the presence of oxygen. In the presence of oxygen the bonds that form amino acids are broken down and will not form (this would happen with oxygen in the atmosphere or with the oxygen molecule in water through hydrolysis). Without the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere UV radiation would destroy any amino acid as soon as it is formed.
Water isn't oxygen, and yet oxygen can exist above water, in the atmosphere.

And that's just ignoring the fact that fiat assertions made from a guy with a proven disdain for science when it disagrees with things he wants to believe aren't evidence. You've really shot yourself in the foot, following up a post about how we should distrust science since it's always wrong, with one telling us how your magic claims are scientifically valid. Hypocrite.
And you used an argument from ignorance, just to cap it all off.
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