(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Nothing is ever "proven" in science, but I can lead you to some information which would suggest that light has not had a change of heart in the past 4k years.,...and also the sorts of things we might see if it had.I never asserted that the properties of light have changed, that was your assertion.
(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I'm suggesting that it's unreasonable, because human beings have eyes. Suggesting that they had never observed a rainbow in the 46k years minimum -just since full modernity- stretches credulity to point break. And that span of time is just a drop in the bucket.
I mean some scientific, historical, or philosophical reason that you have come to the conclusion that there have always been rainbows.
(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here - I'm referring to why we might have "never observed a rainbow" or why there may have never been one. Both of -those- postulates can be addressed fairly easily.Did you address these postulates and I just missed it?
(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The "sign" bit is just low hanging fruit, easy to snipe at as irrelevant and devoid of value or meaning. Like Noah's daily deuce.
Bare assertions don't make anything devoid of value or meaning.
(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Why indeed would god be referenced at all when it comes to a naturally occurring rainbow?
When two people make a covenant it's nonsensical to assume only one party is involved.
(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: He was too lazy to make a proper sign...so he just went with the stuff that happens regardless of whether or not he;s involved?
He created the rainbow, then used it as a sign. What would be a 'proper sign' and how would that creation differ from creating light, water, their inherent properties and thus the rainbow?
(August 1, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The "just-so" element of this story is that in the misty dreamtime god put his bow in the sky as a sign. It "explains" the origin of rainbows (which are salient to a flood narrative) while tying them to some theological proposition. Common for this sort of literature.How do you know God hadn't put His bow in the sky in the past but this was the first time He put His bow in the sky as a bow and a sign?
If it could be proven beyond doubt that God exists...
and that He is the one spoken of in the Bible...
would you repent of your sins and place your faith in Jesus Christ?
