improvius
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| Quote (JohnW @ Oct. 31 2006,15:47) | | Quote (afdave @ Oct. 31 2006,11:32) | 1) There IS NO absolute physical dating system available. People who say there is (RM Dating) are either ignorant or lying, as I have shown quite thoroughly. Download both threads and you will see ...
2) The best dating system we have for historical events is historical records with genealogical tables. The Bible contains many of these.
3) Scientists and historians routinely rely on historical records to date events NOT mentioned in the Bible, but they have a strange, unwarranted predjudice against doing so with the Bible.
4) So my approach to the Origins question is to take the historical record of Genesis and see if the evidence from scientific observation, archaeology and outside historical accounts is consistent with it.
Lo and behold, I find that it is! |
1) Radiometric dating, varves, dendrochronology, ice cores... leave my "hypothesis" deader than Dead Deady McDead, the deadest man in Death Valley, on the Day of the Dead. So let's just handwave them away.
2) If it's written down in "historical records", then it's true.
3) There's no qualitative difference between, say, a declaration of war in the US Congressional records, and a creation myth. See point 2.
4) So my approach to the Origins question is to discard any scientific observation, archaeology or outside historical account which disagrees with Genesis, then find out if what's left agrees with it. In the event of disagreement, discard the evidence. Repeat as necessary. |
That's pretty much it. Dave admitted in the first thread that he evaluates scientific evidence based on whether or not the "researchers" agree with his worldview.
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| Quote (afdave @ Oct. 02 2006,18:37) | Many Jews were in comfortable oblivion about Hitler ... until it was too late.
Many scientists will persist in comfortable oblivion about their Creator ... until it is too late. |
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