james bond
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Ah yes...the "Alamo" of magical thinkers like you:In other words, you can't answer his question. You just ASSume that it has been answered, by someone, somewhere, because you want to believe.
That's an awful lot of blind faith for someone deriding others for their faith.
My blind faith is backed up by lots of DNA and fossil evidence. What evidence is there for the Book of Genesis?
No, your blind faith is backed up by ASSUMPTIONS about the DNA and fossil evidence. The fossil record CANNOT prove evolution, unless you simply nip out the parts that don't suit you. Likewise with DNA. Both are "proof" only if you really, REALLY want to think they are.
There are a number of assertions about the way things work which the Bible makes, and which scientists rejected and derided for centuries, but which now appear to be validated, at least in part.
The Bible claims that the universe had a specific beginning.
What Is the Big Bang Theory?
You yourself have admitted that there is sufficient evidence, scientific and otherwise, to indicate that Noah's flood is based in reality. And the oldest writings archaeologists have found reference it.
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— Jeremiah 31:35
I assume I don't have to prove to you that the moon and the stars have fixed, predictable paths.
And let's look at archaeology, shall we? A hundred years ago, Bible critics were telling us that the Hittites were a Biblical fiction, a made-up group of people who existed only in stories. And then archaeologists in Turkey discovered the ruins of Hattusas, and historical records showing an empire in the second millennium BC . . . about where the Bible said they were.
The Code of Hammurabi and the Nuzi tablets both show remarkable resemblances to the Semitic laws given in the first five books of the Bible.
The various peoples mentioned in the Bible have turned up in other archaeological references. The Philistines are on the Temple of Rameses III at Thebes, c. 1150 BC. Their five cities mentioned in the Bible - Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gaza, Gath, and Ekron - have all been excavated or even exist as cities today.
Lacking any good argument of evidence for any of your magical bullshit, and lacking any good evidence or argument to counter scientific knowledge whochjndermines your magical bullshit, you are left with only one option:
You attempt to drag scientific knowledge down into the muck of your magical bullshit by labelling it "faith".
What an embarrassing display....
If there was any BS, then the Bible would be disproven. The Resurrection would've been disproven. It has withstood the test of time. The Bible is inerrant, accurate, authoritative, true and complete.
LOL- how can you 'disprove' a book of fairy tales? How can I disprove Aesops fables?
How can I disprove Jesus's resurrection any more than i can disprove that that Athena was not born from the head of Zeus?
I am certain that the Bible is 'authoritative' to you- but certainly isn't to billions of other human beings.
As far as 'accurate'- there are some accuracies- hell bound to get something right- but plenty of inaccuracies.
I find it fascinating to watch the Christian cultists who insist that every word in the Bible is correct dance to rationalize around what is clearly just flat out false.
All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest
Insects have 6 legs
We're not talking about Aesop's fables, but the Bible. What historical event which you consider "story" from there do want to discuss? There are parables in there that Christ Jesus used to teach which are stories.
You're referring to Leviticus 11:20-21 "All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest."
Flying insects that walk on all fours would refer to for example the grasshopper as stated.
We see that it has six legs, but the two hind legs aren't considered for walking but hopping as stated. It walks on the four front legs.