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Author Topic:   Secularly Verifiable Evidence for Biblical Inerrancy
fnord
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Message 17 of 99 (152204)
10-23-2004 5:01 AM
Reply to: Message 13 by PaulK
10-22-2004 6:52 PM


Re: The Science of the Bible
4) I didn't realise that I was talking to a Flatlander. In the three dimensional world I exist in spheres are not circles.
And even for a Flatlander spheres aren't cirles. Just because a Flatlander can't imagine what a sphere looks like doesn't mean s/he can't grasp the concept. Just like we can apprehend at least some of the properties of a hypersphere.

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fnord
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Message 25 of 99 (152225)
10-23-2004 8:50 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by SirPimpsalot
10-23-2004 7:31 AM


So does English, but you ask the average guy on the street what shape the Earth is, he'll say "round" (which can define many non-spherical shapes) or "a circle".
Probably, but the Bible isn't supposed to have been written by regular Joe's, but by God-inspired people. Seems to me like God doesn't know elementary math.

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fnord
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Message 27 of 99 (152227)
10-23-2004 9:26 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by SirPimpsalot
10-23-2004 7:40 AM


if man once lived to almost a 1000 years, that would explain why we'd need 90% of our brains free for storing info.
In fact, there is no scientific evidence for the story that we use only 10% of our brains. The usual answer to people quoting this popular myth is: which 90% would you have removed?

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fnord
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Message 54 of 99 (152264)
10-23-2004 12:07 PM
Reply to: Message 36 by SirPimpsalot
10-23-2004 10:20 AM


You do realize that ancient Hebrew didn't even have quotation marks, don't you?
No, I didn't know that. But then you don't need quotation marks to describe the shape of the earth. You just need a word for sphere, which they had.
These weren't scientists........they were holy men, to whom "sphere" and "circle" were synonyms.
Again, in Hebrew, as in English, they are different words, with different meanings. If they didn't know the difference, how do you know they meant sphere and not circle? Aye, there's the rub. Let me get this straight. You claim:
- these holy men, God inspired and all, wrote circle
- but they meant sphere
- and sphere miraculously predicts scientific discoveries of centuries later.
Now why do I have a hard time believing this?
And finally, from another post:
I've never heard anyone claim the location of the source of those four rivers as anywhere but North Africa.
Have you tried looking Euphrates and Tigris up in an atlas?

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fnord
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Message 63 of 99 (152283)
10-23-2004 1:12 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by SirPimpsalot
10-23-2004 12:51 PM


Re: The Science of the Bible
Once again, from the anthropological view point, the Earth IS immovable........
....and from the antropological viewpoint, the earth doesn't hang unsupported in space; it's solid underneath us.

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