The Case for Atheism

[JesusHChrist]

You should know, scholars don't date Daniel anywhere near the 500 BCE time period. That early of a date hasn't been accepted in hundreds of years. Daniel was written *after* the events making its prophetic value worthless.

Have you checked into your religion much? I'm getting the feeling not too critically...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Dan...and_dating

The discovery of the scroll 4QDanc (dating 125 BCE) at Qumran reassured analysts that Daniel was written no later than the 2nd century BCE.[28][clarification needed]
For nearly two millennia, the principal view of both Jewish and Christian scholars has been that the book of Daniel was written by Daniel during the sixth century BCE, considering it as containing prophecy of western political history and an eschatological future.[29] However, since the Age of Enlightenment, critical scholarship of the Bible, taking a cue from third century pagan critic Porphyry, views the Book of Daniel as a pseudepigraph dated around 165 BCE that concerns itself primarily with the Maccabean era and the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes.[30][31] Although the book had been historically classified as prophetic, the style of writing is now considered apocalyptic which was popular between 200 BCE and 100 CE.[32]