Has The Supernatural Hypothesis Failed?

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In your list I see everything but Biblical stuff. I've long derided National Geographic's Robert Ballard and others because they appear to have no interest in falsifying or verifying the very significant evidence of the Exodus crossing site at Nuweiba Beach on the Gulf of Aqaba. There's a lot of debate on that in EvC's archives. Perhaps you would like to search in the archives or click my profile as it's in my profile history.

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What you mean is that in the absence of any significant evidence to support the claims made about the site you took to slandering National Geographic. Of course they have no interest is launching a hugely expensive mission to a site which likely has nothing of interest to be found. Why should they waste that much money ?

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To a person, the science buffs here at EvC are not studied on the remarkable Biblica prophecies, though, like you, they make weak attempts to refute what I cite.

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By which you mean that we read the Bible rather than the nutty ideas of your so-called "experts" (who you daren't even name).
And to those who care about what the Bible actually says (obviously not you, Buz) our "attempts" are hardly feeble.

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The end time predictions relative to what is now the Islamic block of nations and their role as enemies of the restored nation of Israel is another. Those are just a few. I've been studiously into them and daily reading the Bible for over 60 years, since a teenager.

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The fact is that you don't know how to study the Bible. It's not a matter of inventing interpretations that fit with your worldview (and not worrying about how much you have to twist the text in doing so). It's things like comparing parallel passages in the Gospels, considering the historical context a book was written in, what it might mean to the original audience.Even reading the Bible carefully would be an improvement. If you had read what the Revelation had said about the Mark of the Beast you would never have thought that it could be a UPC barcode. No doubt you got that idea from the crazy writings of your "experts" who clearly had no idea what they were saying.

Bluejay, perhaps you can explain a bit more.By my understanding Bluegene's theory is that all Gods are in fact imaginary. This is not a claim about data, it is a claim about the explanation of the data. An outlier would simply be data that did not clearly fit the theory, but should not be regarded as falsifying it. Generally outliers are taken as problems with the data, not the theory.So it is far from clear to me that Bluegene's theory says that there should be no outliers any more than any scientific theory does. I'm not aware of any reason to think that it says that the data should be perfect. Can you explain why you think that Bluegene's theory rules out the possibility of outliers ?