Re: BBC the creationist at the museum

"On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:55:57 +0000, in article
<hcoune$e05$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Burkhard stated..."

TheMac37 wrote:
[...snip...]
2 The Bible IS absolute Truth. Far beyond any thing from the fallen
mind of man.What it says is definitive. That is it ! The word ends the
matter.

Can I ask you my question again? How do you know the Bible was not
written a mere 200 years ago, given your attitude to "unobservable"
theories.


First of all, a comment about the Bible being "definitive" and
"absolute truth". How does one reconcile that with the comments by
Paul in the First Epistle to Corinthians around chapter 6 and following,
where he suggests that what he is writing is not necessarily infallible?
And the fact that nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Bible is
absolute truth and far beyond anything from the mind of man?

And then, what about the observation that everything in the Bible is
consistent with the idea that it was written by people who were part
of the culture of the Ancient Near East? It gives the impression that
the authors believed in the same things about the natural world that
were commonplace in that culture. Of course, it could be that it was
cleverly designed to give that impression, just as the world was
cleverly designed to give the impression that life has been evolving
for hundreds of millions (or billions) of years.


--
---Tom S.
the failure to nail currant jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to
the currant jelly.
Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to William Thayer, 1915 July 2

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