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#585203
BreeStar
"In short, we blindly follow a bad translation of a millennia-old text based on oral traditions passed down by mid-east sheep herders."
7/13/2008 6:59:09 AM
#585213
anonymous_troy
And nothing reality says can change my mind!
7/13/2008 7:24:55 AM
#585216
werewolf
Yes, it can. That's why you and your ilk are so deathly afraid of any scientific discipline.
In the end, if you had any functioning brain cells left, you'd realize that all you have are myths and fantasies.
7/13/2008 7:28:43 AM
#585218
Alcari
Oh, you wish.
See, it's exactly the other way around. Archeology can't prove the bible, but it can disprove it.
Say they find some long-lost biblical city. Is that proof for the bible's truth? No of course not.
Say they find absolutely no evidence of the Exodus. Is that proof that the bible is false? Yes, yes it is.
unfortunately, both statements are true.
7/13/2008 7:29:26 AM
#585225
Nowonmai
Archaeology shows that the fable of the flood is just that. A fable. Suck up, dipshit.
7/13/2008 7:42:23 AM
#585244
Eden
Archaeology may not be able to do it in yoiur eyes, but biology can.
We just have to look at bats, who are not birds,
or at insects of which there are no species with 4 legs
or at hares who definitely are no ruminants
and could go on to the masses of other examples of biblical errancy
7/13/2008 8:30:35 AM
#585256
LordJiro
Eden: I'm surprised we haven't gotten any fundies (that I've seen, at least) claiming that Satan stuck two extra legs onto all insects or something.
7/13/2008 8:52:55 AM
#585263
aaa
Here's my authority... *shows him a sawed off shotgun*
7/13/2008 8:56:46 AM
#585286
CalRC
Authentic Christianity (TM). Based on Teh R33l Babble. Accept no substitutes.
"Nothing can be found, or not found, that should shake our faith in the total truthfulness and trustworthiness of the Word of God. "
So, basically you meant to say: "Screw reality! Teh Bibble iz teh truth!!1!eleven!"
7/13/2008 9:33:11 AM
#585329
Anna Ghislaine
Bollocks. If we found archaeological evidence that proved Jesus existed you'd be all over it. You wouldn't shrug and say, "Well, that's nice, but it's irrelevant. Christianity doesn't need archaeology to support it."
7/13/2008 10:51:19 AM
#585336
Cabraxas
Inscripturated? Fundie "New Word Award", anyone?
7/13/2008 11:06:23 AM
#585339
Jay-Sus
Using several syllable words doesn't make you look smart. It makes you look more retarded.
7/13/2008 11:10:33 AM
#585340
Paler_Face
How long before the putzes realise that reality is not wrong?
7/13/2008 11:10:46 AM
#585349
Michael
Excuse me, but that has been my job for the last 52 years.
Speak for yourself.
Most of this Bible crap actually comes from the Assyrians and the Babylonians predating the Bible by at least 2 millenia.
These stories have been mistranslated and misinterpreted through the ages and bear little resemblance to the original.
7/13/2008 11:26:30 AM
#585369
Mostly true, but it does show that Chrisitans will gladly sacrifice reason and logic on the altar of faith.
7/13/2008 11:49:46 AM
#585379
Mister Spak
"Archaeology can expand our knowledge and understanding, but cannot establish the authority for our faith. "
IOW, archeology does not prove your fairy tale false, your fairy tale proves archeology false.
7/13/2008 11:55:30 AM
#585424
Ltap
Albert Mohler... at least he doesn't try to call himself a doctor.
7/13/2008 12:56:05 PM
#585442
solomongrundy
In the words of Indiana Jones:
Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.
7/13/2008 1:25:06 PM
#585466
mary77
Jesus was a Jew who never renounced his faith. He never founded "christianity"--that came long after his passing.
Paul, who never knew him, was a convert with all that energy.
7/13/2008 1:54:33 PM
#585472
Allegory for Jesus
Wonderful, so you admit that the Bible has no relevant evidence and cannot have any relevant evidence sufficient enough to prove its veracity. Good to know...but could you tell the others that?
7/13/2008 2:01:28 PM
#585508
John
No one would question the word of God, if we had it. It's the word of the bronze age Arab goat-herders who wrote the Bible that's a little harder to accept. Harder yet is the word of the fundamentalist cherry-pickers who comb through the Bible until they find something that agrees with them (or can be twisted to agree).
7/13/2008 2:52:56 PM
#585513
Canadiest
and yet you still see science as a threat
7/13/2008 2:58:09 PM
#585514
Canadiest
and yet you still see science as a threat
7/13/2008 2:58:10 PM
#585518
Hasher
Eden: I hate to be such a pedant, but actually there are a number of butterfly species with four legs. Of course their physiology suggests that they descended from six-legged ancestors, but there really are a few four-legged, four-winged insects.
7/13/2008 3:01:12 PM
#585519
Torquemada
"Archaeology can expand our knowledge and understanding, but cannot establish the authority for our faith. "
Abnormal psychology, on the other hand ....
7/13/2008 3:03:28 PM
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