The proposition for debate is that when one takes the tales of Genesis literally, one becomes intellectually disabled, at least temporarily. Taking Genesis literally requires one to reject biology (which includes evolution) and other sciences in favor of 'magic.' Geology and radiometric dating have to be rejected since the Earth formed only about 6000 years ago, during the same week the Earth was made (in a single day).
Much of the debate in the topic of Science and Religion consists of theists who insist on a literal interpretation of Genesis rejecting basic science. Most of the resulting debates are not worth engaging in.
The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
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The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
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Re: The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
Post #191God is a spirit. Have you some evidence He did not infuse the people He chose to write Scripture with His spirit?Clownboat wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 3:59 pm I typed my words because they show a common theme in Christianity.
That theme is a faith based belief that a god said things and they are to be believed even though it was actually humans that penned the said words (many times after generations of oral tradition). I also note that humans of all types believe all sorts of god claims. Nothing noteworthy IMO.
Yes. Ask a specific question. I can't guess about what you are confused about.What I want to know is, why did you type the words you typed? Did they have a purpose like mine did? If so, what was the purpose of your words? Can you break it down for me like I did?
Most people who believe in a spiritual world have reasons. Changed lives, miracles, etc. The bible is full of examples. As people who knew and were actually there said..You mention some vast armada of proofs beyond the scope of science, but didn't provide any examples.
Acts 1:3
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
ALL proofs escape poor little deaf and blind to anything spiritual science! That is like asking a fly to recite Shakespeare.
Please list some of these vast armadas of proofs that escape science for us all to examine.
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Post #192I have several times qualified the word by adding forces and laws. The fundamental forces we know. The laws and forces that make atoms work, and cells work etc etc.
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Re: The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
Post #193Ah huh, but that's doesn't change the fact that the laws of nature are the same, every time we checked now, does it?
Why this and not all the more reasons to treat them as myths? Why these and not the Japanese royal family records that trace their lineage unbroken, from the current Emperor Naruhito, all the way back to the creation of the Earth?The records say men lived many centuries. All the more reason to question a same state past. Records in Sumer and Scripture.
You brought up the records in Sumer, that has stuff from "before the flood," but that's beside the point. Without records, we appeal to empirical evidence, that counts for more in my book.You can't the bible is the only record man has from before the flood, period. Ignore it and you have nothing.
Why not? That doesn't make sense to me. How does "there are no records" implies "you cannot interpolate?" You seemed to be missing the whole point of interpolation, we use it to deduce things that we have no direct access to. Not having records is exactly the kind of situation interpolation is useful.You cannot do that since there are no records.
Okay.It isn't. I use the limits of where man has been or not, limits based on knowledge.
That doesn't tell me why you trust the probes when they could have left our local bubble of physical laws. Let me try asking the question in a different way: What's so different between the belief that "the laws of nature were different in the distant past, so radioactive dating does not reflect the true age of a piece of rock" and "the laws of nature are different in a bubble around my pen, so dropping it does not reflect the true mass of the pen," or "the laws of nature are different on Mars, so probe data does not reflect the true surface of the planet?"Man has been to Mars via probes. That is not in question. The furthest probe is less than one light day away! That is the limit so far, approx the solar system and area. You may make claims about less than one light day. Not about millions of light years away! (regarding what space and time there are like)
Our interpolation is based on the laws of physics as they are today, why doesn't that count as based on knowledge or facts? The laws of physics as we know them, aren't knowledge or facts?It must be based on knowledge. No one was ever there to record life before Babel. So any guess you make as to what nature was like then is not based on fact or knowledge at all.
I don't know what exactly you meant by "cover." But you asked for empirical evidence that the laws of nature is the same in the distant universe and earth long before records existed, and I gave some to you. Doesn't empirical evidence count as "cover?"That does not cover the distant universe or the nature on earth long before records existed.
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Re: The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
Post #194The sodium atoms are not here, the photons of light are.dad1 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:58 amAnd WHERE do you see it? HERE!The atoms are still at the star (or were millions or billions of years ago when they emitted the light that took that long to get here), but the photons made it to Earth and happen to have the same spectral signature (intensity vs. wavelength) as the same atoms on Earth apart from the red shift.
The atoms we see here are still billions of light years away? Explain? If they are seen here guess where that means they are...here!
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Post #195No, you may claim a same nature for as long as you checked. That is not all that long. If Babel was about 4400 BC for example, then that was not that long ago. Since dating heavily relies on collaboration from things like trees and etc that pushes any accuray from radioactive dating even closer to the present. After all if trees grew in weeks and had hundreds of rings, endocrinology is out the window centuries before that cut of of 4400BC. If you are happy with that, fine.
Not sure if this is what you are talking aboutWhy this and not all the more reasons to treat them as myths? Why these and not the Japanese royal family records that trace their lineage unbroken, from the current Emperor Naruhito, all the way back to the creation of the Earth?
"Kami (Japanese: 神, [kaꜜmi]) are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the religion of Shinto. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the spirits of venerated dead people. Many kami are considered the ancient ancestors of entire clans (some ancestors became kami upon their death if they were able to embody the values and virtues of kami in life)."
I also notice the oldest copy is from the 1400s! So if you want to submit this for evidence for the time to creation, sorry. Notice also it consists of deities, spirits. You also will have to allow spirits as evidence. Ha
No. That is post flood (hope you didn't get confused by dream dates for that)You brought up the records in Sumer, that has stuff from "before the flood,"
And that is what we have been waiting for you to post.but that's beside the point. Without records, we appeal to empirical evidence, that counts for more in my book.
There are limits.Why not? That doesn't make sense to me. How does "there are no records" implies "you cannot interpolate?" You seemed to be missing the whole point of interpolation, we use it to deduce things that we have no direct access to. Not having records is exactly the kind of situation interpolation is useful.
That doesn't tell me why you trust the probes when they could have left our local bubble of physical laws.
To be honest I don't! When I see the anomaly in both probes that has a gain or loss of time, I get suspicious! (despite them grasping at straws to provide an explanation that it was due to thrusters or some such being a little wonky or whatever)
But I allow the benefit of the doubt for the sake of being generous to the other side's arguments and saving time. After all we are talking about less than one lousy light day!
One is observable, and testable. The past on earth is long gone.Let me try asking the question in a different way: What's so different between the belief that "the laws of nature were different in the distant past, so radioactive dating does not reflect the true age of a piece of rock" and "the laws of nature are different in a bubble around my pen, so dropping it does not reflect the true mass of the pen," or "the laws of nature are different on Mars, so probe data does not reflect the true surface of the planet?"
But I do have one possible test that translates to the present physical world. I have a prediction. (rather an extrapolation based on prophesy in the bible) Of course I could be wrong, but in following the logic and the bible it does lead me to make a duduction about the forces and laws of nature on earth today. But maybe that is another thread. (Long story short I think that in the coming last several years, or just after, the nature and forces will again change abruptly!)
It does if you do not try to project that into the future or far past on earth.Our interpolation is based on the laws of physics as they are today, why doesn't that count as based on knowledge or facts?
Today they are. We have not checked the future or far past on earth for that. Instead they have used these present forces to model what the future and far past are like.The laws of physics as we know them, aren't knowledge or facts?
I mean they have no way of observing and testing.I don't know what exactly you meant by "cover."
Not when that evidence regards invisible forces and laws of nature that existed many many thousands of years ago. Your pen falling does not cover that.But you asked for empirical evidence that the laws of nature is the same in the distant universe and earth long before records existed, and I gave some to you. Doesn't empirical evidence count as "cover?"
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Post #196That is interesting, but if true changes nothing about how much time the light took to get here. But do explain. How can light that is here contain stuff that is elsewhere?help3434 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:46 amThe sodium atoms are not here, the photons of light are.dad1 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:58 amAnd WHERE do you see it? HERE!The atoms are still at the star (or were millions or billions of years ago when they emitted the light that took that long to get here), but the photons made it to Earth and happen to have the same spectral signature (intensity vs. wavelength) as the same atoms on Earth apart from the red shift.
The atoms we see here are still billions of light years away? Explain? If they are seen here guess where that means they are...here!
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Post #197Here are some things I contested in the post you quoted that you ignored, but then accused me of berating you instead.Inquirer wrote:If you contest something I said then state your case, don't berate me just because you don't like what I said.
1. If I said these words, or the words above, would they come across as prideful and arrogent to you?
2. What god are you referring to and what did this god create?
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Re: The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
Post #198[Replying to dad1 in post #196]
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This has been explained in many (recent) prior posts ... have you already forgotten those discussions and explanations? Maybe review the posts in your own thread "Starlight and Time" where all of this was discussed in detail:That is interesting, but if true changes nothing about how much time the light took to get here. But do explain. How can light that is here contain stuff that is elsewhere?
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Post #199Please show you speak the truth.
I never claimed there was a god that did not infuse people to write holy books, so why would I provide evidence for something I have not said? You put the cart before the horse, because for all we know, all sorts of gods told people to write all sorts of holy books, right?Have you some evidence He did not infuse the people He chose to write Scripture with His spirit?
Of course they have reasons. I note that Schizophrenics also have reasons for hearing what they hear. Your words have taught us nothing.Most people who believe in a spiritual world have reasons.
So are other holy books. What is your take on other holy books?Changed lives, miracles, etc. The bible is full of examples.
Do you argue that this holds as much weight as claims from other holy books? Are you of the impression that your holy book is special and the rest are not?As people who knew and were actually there said..
Acts 1:3
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. - SocratesALL proofs escape poor little deaf and blind to anything spiritual science! That is like asking a fly to recite Shakespeare.
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Re: The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally
Post #200Due to the bold above...DrNoGods wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:23 pm [Replying to dad1 in post #196]
This has been explained in many (recent) prior posts ... have you already forgotten those discussions and explanations? Maybe review the posts in your own thread "Starlight and Time" where all of this was discussed in detail:That is interesting, but if true changes nothing about how much time the light took to get here. But do explain. How can light that is here contain stuff that is elsewhere?
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I would like to note the OP:
The Debilitating Effect of Taking Genesis Literally - Bam
You can give a man a fish and he will be fed for a day, or you can teach a man to pray for fish and he will starve to death.
I blame man for codifying those rules into a book which allowed superstitious people to perpetuate a barbaric practice. Rules that must be followed or face an invisible beings wrath. - KenRU
It is sad that in an age of freedom some people are enslaved by the nomads of old. - Marco
If you are unable to demonstrate that what you believe is true and you absolve yourself of the burden of proof, then what is the purpose of your arguments? - brunumb
I blame man for codifying those rules into a book which allowed superstitious people to perpetuate a barbaric practice. Rules that must be followed or face an invisible beings wrath. - KenRU
It is sad that in an age of freedom some people are enslaved by the nomads of old. - Marco
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