I want to be convinced - an experiment

I have a question Sarde. You are a scientist, that is what I gather from what I read. And scientists study and read books upon books upon books. You rely alot on the fact that earlier scientist were correct in there conclusions. From there you can work to disproove or verify that work and go on from there. Why then, do you discount the book that has more eyewitness accounts of the items within it's pages. It seems (and I may be wrong) that they never found Hitlers body. Does that mean that he never really existed? Some say Jesus didn't. My point is if we can't rely on this history book to be reliable then we can't rely on any of them to be reliable. If you are going to use science as your tool of which you measure logicaly, then by what science book can really have faith in to be true and correct. -Z

I'm not TRYING to make a point. What I'm trying to do is figure out how scientists can be so contradictory. On one hand they say they believe in the scientific ways of learning, but history is a different story. Are historians scientists or not? How can you, a scientist say the bible isn't a history book. It's been documented by thousands of scholars as being historically accurate. Did you believe the history books you were taught from in high school? Or did you spend your extra time discounting them as well? I'm extremely happy you found Christ. It's a wonderfull gift. I hope you will do as much research in the bible as you do your career. -Z

I lovingly disagree. The point, I think, that is being missed here is that "scientists" believe what they see, through much testing and retesting to proove or disproove their theory or what-have-you. The you refer to is called history and unlike the science of which you speak this actually has eyewitness accounts which IS the best proof of all. That kind of proof can NOT be denied. Your experiments, on the other hand, are in a matter of speaking in the eye of the beholder.[This message has been edited by Zachariah, 04-09-2004][This message has been edited by Zachariah, 04-09-2004]