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Re: Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)

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Post by elwell » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #27

elwell wrote: post #9

Another instance of the scientific community converging to a consensus congruent with the Genesis account of creation. Genesis 2:5-6 "the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth ... but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground." Two other notable instances: the universe had a beginning (a Big Bang) and evolution occurred generally in the order described in Genesis 1 (nothing, plants,…

Scientists used to assume the bible was a historical document that told the truth. They (generally) stopped believing because a close examination of reality kept contradicting it.

What specifically can be observed that contradicts the Bible?

Re: Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)

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Post by elwell » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

abtinf wrote: post #15

elwell wrote: post #9

Another instance of the scientific community converging to a consensus congruent with the Genesis account of creation. Genesis 2:5-6 "the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth ... but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground." Two other notable instances: the universe had a beginning (a Big Bang) and evolution occurred generally in the order described in Genesis 1 (nothing, plants,…

The Big Bang is not the beginning of the universe.

What's so wrong about using the word 'universe' in that way?

Here's the first example I found from a quick Google search:

> The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began.

https://www.space.com/25126-big-bang-theory.html

Re: Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)

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Post by ben_w » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

elwell wrote: post #41

ben_w wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scientists used to assume the bible was a historical document that told the truth. They (generally) stopped believing because a close examination of reality kept contradicting it.

What specifically can be observed that contradicts the Bible?

Of the top of my head:

Global flood covering all the land (no evidence, but it would leave evidence if it happened); the number of species that actually exist versus the described size of Noah’s Ark (ever been to a zoo? The bible describes the Ark as about the size of Berlin Zoo’s bird house); Luke chapter 2 says the census that makes Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem was when Quirinus was governor of Syria and Herod was king of Judea, but Herod died 9 years before Quirinus took the job (also the Romans didn’t require people to return to the place of their birth for a census, because that’s a really dumb thing to do); and the total lack of evidence for the events in Exodus, when they should’ve been really obvious in the records and graveyards.

There are others, but I’m not a biblical scholar and don’t care enough to look closer.