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Science confirms the Bible?
RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Back towards the topic, I have a question about the flood. If the Biblical Flood really happened, wouldn't the world be overrun with ducks?

What makes you think that?
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 9, 2013 at 6:46 am)Maelstrom Wrote:
(June 8, 2013 at 6:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: it does record what people in history held to be their best understanding of the material universe.

If the writers were divinely inspired by God, the science should have been accurate.

If divulging scientific information was the point.

What purpose would divulging scientific fact serve?

Is was inspired by God, and related in a way understandable to it's recipients. It's not beyond our abilities to see that, and to understand the real message: purpose.

(June 9, 2013 at 6:49 am)Zen Badger Wrote:
(June 8, 2013 at 6:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: What's more worrying is that you think it is a science book.

No, it is creationists that think it is a science book.

We know it is myth.

Then why continually force a scientific interpretation of it?

If you dismiss it on its primitive science, then you are reading it in exactly the same way as the creationists.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 9, 2013 at 4:30 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(June 9, 2013 at 6:46 am)Maelstrom Wrote: If the writers were divinely inspired by God, the science should have been accurate.

If divulging scientific information was the point.

What purpose would divulging scientific fact serve?

Is was inspired by God, and related in a way understandable to it's recipients. It's not beyond our abilities to see that, and to understand the real message: purpose.
You are aware that the same can (and is) said about the Qur'an, right?
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 9, 2013 at 3:57 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Back towards the topic, I have a question about the flood. If the Biblical Flood really happened, wouldn't the world be overrun with ducks?

What makes you think that?
Well, they float pretty well.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 9, 2013 at 4:48 pm)pocaracas Wrote: You are aware that the same can (and is) said about the Qur'an, right?

Well I would have thought so pokie. But every Muslim I've seen seems to think the Quran needs to have scientific proofs.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 9, 2013 at 4:30 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(June 9, 2013 at 6:46 am)Maelstrom Wrote: If the writers were divinely inspired by God, the science should have been accurate.

If divulging scientific information was the point.

What purpose would divulging scientific fact serve?

Is was inspired by God, and related in a way understandable to it's recipients. It's not beyond our abilities to see that, and to understand the real message: purpose.

(June 9, 2013 at 6:49 am)Zen Badger Wrote: No, it is creationists that think it is a science book.

We know it is myth.

Then why continually force a scientific interpretation of it?

If you dismiss it on its primitive science, then you are reading it in exactly the same way as the creationists.

Newton got the building blocks of physics right, but also postulated alchemy for a while. So yes, it is ok to discard crap.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 9, 2013 at 4:57 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote:
(June 9, 2013 at 3:57 pm)Godschild Wrote: What makes you think that?
Well, they float pretty well.

*is filled with nostalgia*

Yes, everything FLOATS down here!
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
Fuck the ducks, I want to know why there's a planet left at all after some global fucking flood. Maybe the fundies don't realize this, but the forces required would leave nothing in their wake but a barren rock......-if they left that....which is unlikely-.

Not even fish could survive such a flood.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Back towards the topic, I have a question about the flood. If the Biblical Flood really happened, wouldn't the world be overrun with ducks?

It didn't happen and we are overrun with religious fucks.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 8, 2013 at 6:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)Walking Void Wrote: If scientists wrote the bible I may actually reference it more often.

Then you're only interested in current science?

Science constantly moves. I'm not saying that I think that the bible is concerned with science, but it does record what people in history held to be their best understanding of the material universe.

What's more worrying is that you think it is a science book.

That's at least part of what Genesis is, is it not? Why bother trying to explain anything about the origin of the world?

The problem is, if these primitive men invented all these tales to explain the world they saw around them in terms they could comprehend, and it's obvious in some cases this is precisely what happened, and honest Christians can admit this is what happened, when do you start to wonder if the main character of the whole thing came from the same source and served the same purpose?
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