One needs to evaluate the scientific evidence with the bible in one hand, the text book in the other.
Axiom: The Bible is true
Therefore: Scientific evidence that is accurate will conform to the Bible
Therefore: our scientific research needs to ocus on theories that reconcile the observed evidence with Biblical teaching.
No conflict required
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Erroneous assumptions lead to incorrect analysis of available data and inaccurate conclusions.
But: statements in the bible disagree with observeable reality.
I'm sorry, that's not the Bible in one hand and textbooks in the other; that's the Bible in both hands being used to hammer a stack of textbooks sitting on the desk. There's no balance there. You're giving all the discretionary power to the Bible, and then shoe-horning science into this mold that the Good Book provides.
"Therefore: our scientific research needs to ocus on theories that reconcile the observed evidence with Biblical teaching."
Since Bibles hadn´t supplied knowledge to build internet or this computer or all the tech, not just now, but from the Bronze Age onwards, I find your statement inconsistent and culturally motivated.
Yes, when you start out with an assumption that, for no logical reason, you insist is true, you can make anything that follows fit it.
The whole thing falls apart with the axiom he uses. The bible is only as true as the myths it is based on, but as myths are, by definition, 'not true' then the bible is not true.
Yeah, with the exception that Axioms are supposed to represent truth.
Saying it's true don't make it so.
The Swedish Wikipedia says you can sometimes equate axiom with theory.
The Bible contradicts even itself; there's no trusting it, at all. Women in the Bible .
Chapter and verse where computers are mentioned in the Bible, or GET OFF THE INTERNET, NOW!!!
You cannot do science if you already know the outcome. It defeats the very purpose of science.
If they do the research, and the evidence does not gel with your storybook, then it means that the storybook is WRONG!
Try this , take a bible in one hand and a textbook in the other, good, you have it, yes they are heavy.
What are you turning pages with, hmmm ?
Nose is correct ! thanks for playing
"One needs to evaluate the scientific evidence with the bible in one hand, the text book in the other.
Axiom: The Bible is true
Therefore: Scientific evidence that is accurate will conform to the Bible
Therefore: our scientific research needs to ocus on theories that reconcile the observed evidence with Biblical teaching.
No conflict required"
Okay:
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The above was calculated with as near as dammit mathematical precision by the ancient Greeks; they were even able to determine that the Earth was spherical . The Bible says Pi = exactly 3.
PROTIP: That's ancient Greeks. As in BCE . Y'know. Before the Bible was written.
Now go and stand in front of a moving steamroller, HexenHammer. I'm sure there'll be no conflict between it and you, seeing as - according to the Bible - the Wheel is a Biblically-proven lie , and therefore can never exist...! >:D
If 'faith can move mountains', then your faith in Biblical fact will ensure nothing will happen to you.
...or don't you have enough faith in your 'faith' to do that...?!
Lets say the earth is flat.
Axiom: The bible is true
Therefore: Forget the science stuff, the bible should agree with simple observation.
Therefore: It shouldn't be necessary to come up with convoluted apologetic arguments to explain the apparent contradictions between the bible and reality.
(Er, scratch that...)
Axiom: The bible is true
Therefore: Forget observation, the bible should at least agree with itself!
Therefore: It shouldn't be necessary to come up with convoluted apologetic arguments to explain the apparent contradictions between different parts of the bible.
(Er, scratch that too...)
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