Re: Semi-OT: The Bible's many "scientific truths"

"On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:35:59 GMT, in article
<l07hr1l0b8luitp2g7f8b6vi32gs72ioik@xxxxxxx>, Johnny Bravo stated..."
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>On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:06:16 -0700, John Burton <jrhoburton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>Happy New Year!
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>>The following material was forwarded to me via a private e-mail. I
>>Googled briefly but could not find any existing material to debunk these
>>claims. Anyone know of any? If there isn't any, I might give it a shot
>>myself. I suspect that some of the relevant points to be made are:
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> You could just point out that parts of the bible that are just bat*** insane
>fron a scientific standpoint.
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> Example - Cure for Leprosy:
>Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one.
>Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird
>fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's
>right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of
>the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves
>and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Lev 14:2-32
>

Please give citations to the peer-reviewed literature which
show that this procedure does not relieve the symptoms of
leprosy.

Note that a double-blind study with a result that has no
significant difference from chance does not *exclude* the
effectiveness, only does not demonstrate its effectiveness.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Note also that such a study must show that the disease being
treated is the disease called "leprosy" by the Bible. Compare,
for example, discussions about the Biblical descriptions of bats
being birds and whales being fish.


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---Tom S. <http://talkreason.org/articles/chickegg.cfm>
"It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so
much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. ... The evidences ... of
Natural Theology distinctly imply that the author of the Kosmos worked under
limitations..." John Stuart Mill, "Theism", Part II

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