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Ok more time now.Is it unreliable? A scientific definition of reliability would be giving the same results time after time. Certainly for any particular translation the words are always the same. But, I suppose you meant that how you interpret the bible does not square with how you interpret the world. Perhaps the problem is with either your interpretation of the world or your interpretation of the Bible.Technically if it is a theory it has not been demonstrated. Additionally the history of science is ripe with examples of accepted scientific dogma that has been abandoned in favor of newer dogma. Yes some scientific experiments can be repeated. But not all scientific observations can be repeated. Some observations are of very rare events. That in no way makes the observations any less true just because they are rare. Which is exactly, I'll say it again, exactly, what is happening with observations recorded in the bible - many of them are observations of rare events- they are no less true for being rare. Seeing gravity operate the same way again and again and then concluding that it will continue to operate the same way the next time someone jumps off of a building is exactly and precisely an assumption. This kind of assumption is called inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is the basis of scientific axioms and it starts with assumption.Rolleyes? You are rolling your eyes at me? I think you should read this and then perhaps a few more articles about the nature of science.http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/tisthammerw/science.htmlIs it possible that the sun will not rise tomorrow? It has risen every day since the beginning of recorded history! Yet on some day it will go supernova then on the following day it will not rise. I would add that on that following day a pen will not drop off a table and fall because it will have vaporized.
Ok more time now.
Is it unreliable? A scientific definition of reliability would be giving the same results time after time. Certainly for any particular translation the words are always the same. But, I suppose you meant that how you interpret the bible does not square with how you interpret the world. Perhaps the problem is with either your interpretation of the world or your interpretation of the Bible.
Technically if it is a theory it has not been demonstrated. Additionally the history of science is ripe with examples of accepted scientific dogma that has been abandoned in favor of newer dogma. Yes some scientific experiments can be repeated. But not all scientific observations can be repeated. Some observations are of very rare events. That in no way makes the observations any less true just because they are rare. Which is exactly, I'll say it again, exactly, what is happening with observations recorded in the bible - many of them are observations of rare events- they are no less true for being rare.
Seeing gravity operate the same way again and again and then concluding that it will continue to operate the same way the next time someone jumps off of a building is exactly and precisely an assumption. This kind of assumption is called inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is the basis of scientific axioms and it starts with assumption.
Rolleyes? You are rolling your eyes at me? I think you should read this and then perhaps a few more articles about the nature of science.
http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/tisthammerw/science.html
Is it possible that the sun will not rise tomorrow? It has risen every day since the beginning of recorded history! Yet on some day it will go supernova then on the following day it will not rise. I would add that on that following day a pen will not drop off a table and fall because it will have vaporized.
