Aren't you at least curious as to whats in the Bible pertaining to future technology?
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I lol'd at this. The bible has absolutely nothing about technology, either the tech of today or of the future. It has nothing past it's ancient Palestinian heritage. To think otherwise shows your idiocy. I guess all those sci-fi fiction novels are actually books of prophecy, huh?
That's nothing. Earlier he claims that kosher sanitary laws from leviticus are "what put into effect the FDA".
Recommend reading the source, starting around comment 900 or so.
Actually I am.
Let's hear it!
But Lord Xenu and the Marcabians have already used their superior technology to control our world (which, as we know, is a prison planet) and there is no technology that could possibly save us except for DIANETICS!
...Oh, wait, it's a fundie Christian.
My bad, I got my batshit all mixed-up again.
Advanced technologies predicted and described by Robert Heinlein: Waterbeds (Stranger in a Strange Land, 1960); Magnetic Linear Accelerators (The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, 1966); Remote Manipulator Systems (Waldo, 1942); the Internet (Friday, 1980); Powered Armour (Starship Troopers, 1959) and so on.
Advanced technologies predicted and described by the authors of The Bible: Still waiting.
Yes, the bits where the bible mentions dentistry, surgery, antibiotics or any useful high technology would be appreciated. Annoyingly, my Bible concordance has Jack Shit about them.
My first reaction:
lol wat?
Well, if there's anything in the Bible pertaining to future technology we should be able to use it to invent or discover those things, right?
It's amusing that all those science or technology "references" found in the Bible or the Quran are always found AFTER they have been discovered by scientists.
Jules Verne predicted the invention of the Fax Machine. Arthur C. Clarke predicted the invention of telecommunications satellites. I see nothing in the Bible about the latest Quad-core CPU-based computers, MP3 players, plasma screens, DAB radios etc.
...on the other hand, there were intimations of motor vehicles in the Bible. King David was a biker:
David's Triumph was heard throughout the land
And Jesus drove a Honda. Because he & his disciples were all in one Accord.
...I'll get my coat.
I guess iron chariots were the Stealth planes of their time. After all, in Judges 1:19, God didn't see them coming, and Judah (whom God was with) couldn't pwn the inhabitants of the valley.
So much for God's omnipresence & omnipotence, if mere horse-drawn wheeled carts made of iron could beat him, eh? Just as Saddam Insane literally didn't know what hit him in the 1st Gulf War, spearheaded by those F-117As.
Lets seewhat the bible has to say...
Kings 7:19 " The Playstation VI is going to be totally awsome"
Well knowing a little about tech in biblical times, I would say a faster chariot, heavier steel lorica segmentata's, lighter more efficient sword design, a crude form of indoor plumbing. Earth being the center of the universe. Yea-science and technology of the bible.
@a mind far far away
to a degree, they are...also, sci fi fiction is redundant, as the fi stands for fiction.
but yeah, the bible DOES kind of predict stuff. if you have the knowledge of the crap. so, you can interpret things in the bible to mean stuff about tech we have. some passage about air whispering far away or some crap, which CAN be interpreted as the internet. you cant predict future tech though.
Oh, sure . Didn't you know the Bible gives designs for spacecraft?
(That was seriously proposed, actually; the book was called "The Spaceships of Ezekiel". It's ... a stretch.)
"Aren't you at least curious as to whats in the Bible pertaining to future technology?"
I've read both the Old & New Testaments, cover to cover, and nowhere do they mention Quantum Computing.
Yet, in this BBC "Horizon" documentary, A Quantum Computer already exists:
http://freeonlinedocumentary.com/the-illusion-of-reality/
Just a few years ago, the film "Stealth" featured an unmanned plane, the UCAV E.D.I., which had a Quantum Processor (10 Tb/sec).
The Fax Machine was predicted in Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days". It could be said that Mary Shelley predicted organ transplants, biomechanics, nay, cybernetics, in her novel "Frankenstein: Or a Modern Prometheus".
The Science Fiction of the past, is the Science Fact of today.
The question is a non sequitor. The NT was written with the expectation that there would be no future. In the gospels, Jesus explained that he would returning within the lifetimes of his original audience, thus heralding the end of the old world. Paul's genuine epistles were all concerned with immediate problems. They do not address long term problems because, in Paul's mind, there would be no long term. Later writers who forged letters in Paul's name (such as 2nd Thessalonians, Timothy 1&2 and Titus) grudgingly acknowledged that the end of the world might take awhile, but they still assured their readers that it was "imminent." In other words, no future and thus no need for new technology from a biblical perspective.
Now, it is possible that the entire NT is invalid (I have no problem assuming that). However, the OT really doesn't concern itself with new technology either. The prophets focused on individual behavior and the rise of various rival kingdoms. Technological development doesn't seem to be a concern for the OT writers at all, which is understandable given the amount of effort the ancient Israelites had to expend just to survive.
So, in answer to your question, no, I am not curious.
Strangely enough, it's only after something has been invented, that Bible-thumpers rush out to say "hey, if you twist and turn this passage until you no longer recognize it, it exactly explains this new invention". They never come up with any inventions themselves.
So no, I'm not that curious really. I'd rather follow a science journal.
Go ahead. Produce some Biblical technology...but bear in mind, it has to be technology that science hasn't discovered yet. None of that nonsense of the world being round or the jetstream, because by the time those things were "discovered" in the Bible, scientists had already uncovered them through other means...almost as if the fundies were selectively interpreting Bible verses to make it seem like they had scientific knowledge when they really didn't.
So give us some brand-new discoveries. Show us the Bible verse with the secret to perpetual energy, or the cure for cancer, or time travel.
>>Anon-e-moose
Not quite. Bain's image-transferring telegraph was first demonstrated in 1843, 30 years before Verne wrote the book. It was of course not in common use.
Groppi clearly is missing the point entirely. If he could extract useful information on future technology from the Bible, he should do so, make a huge amount of money, and use it to fund whatever he cares about.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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