tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post6683102941872141862..comments2023-12-17T13:05:30.543-08:00Comments on Brane Space: The TEN Million Errors of the BibleCopernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-7450819470954068342010-10-04T08:26:29.028-07:002010-10-04T08:26:29.028-07:00Yes, you're quite right, Caleb. I suspect he&#...Yes, you're quite right, Caleb. I suspect he's in serious denial, and no it's not the river through Egypt! Denial makes him stretch for spurious "explanations" to ease his existential anxiety that we may well be the ones correct here.<br /><br /> <br /><br />All the "mistakes" he lists are, of course, also spurious, since they don't address the omissions.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Indeed, he even contradicts himself since I recall that in an earlier blog about a year or so ago he admitted the bible can never be used as a text book of science. If that's so, and I know he wrote it, then it means any scientific claims for the Bible are spurious or in plain terms....bollocks. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Any sensible person with half a working brain knows you're never going to pass a medical examination (to become a dr.) using the Bible, nor will you ever get a graduate degree in physics, biology, chemistry or any other science using the bible.<br /><br /> <br /><br />The most bible punchers are able to do is read some vague science interpretations between the lines. This is nothing, even the astrologers and alchemists can do better than that.<br /><br />This is what we behold when people have nothing more than the "will to believe" as Psychologist William James put it in his book by the same name.<br /><br />Btw, have you seen Mike's latest? He tries to reconcile the contradiction between Matthew 28:5 and John 20:12, where the first says there was one angel at the tomb after the resurrection, and the John verse says there were two.<br /><br />According to Mikey, these are "not mutually exclusive" since "it is a mathematical certainty that wherever there are TWO there must be ONE"!<br /><br />But that is lapse thinking and zero sum logic. Like saying the population of the U.S. is really ONE, and not 301 million, since wherever there are 301 million there must be one!<br /><br />But logic like that will get a person to the funny farm! But is also shows how and why their brains are so screwed up, probably beyond repair!Copernicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-54870007138847048282010-10-04T08:26:25.348-07:002010-10-04T08:26:25.348-07:00Yes, you're quite right, Caleb. I suspect he&#...Yes, you're quite right, Caleb. I suspect he's in serious denial, and no it's not the river through Egypt! Denial makes him stretch for spurious "explanations" to ease his existential anxiety that we may well be the ones correct here.<br /><br /> <br /><br />All the "mistakes" he lists are, of course, also spurious, since they don't address the omissions.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Indeed, he even contradicts himself since I recall that in an earlier blog about a year or so ago he admitted the bible can never be used as a text book of science. If that's so, and I know he wrote it, then it means any scientific claims for the Bible are spurious or in plain terms....bollocks. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Any sensible person with half a working brain knows you're never going to pass a medical examination (to become a dr.) using the Bible, nor will you ever get a graduate degree in physics, biology, chemistry or any other science using the bible.<br /><br /> <br /><br />The most bible punchers are able to do is read some vague science interpretations between the lines. This is nothing, even the astrologers and alchemists can do better than that.<br /><br />This is what we behold when people have nothing more than the "will to believe" as Psychologist William James put it in his book by the same name.<br /><br />Btw, have you seen Mike's latest? He tries to reconcile the contradiction between Matthew 28:5 and John 20:12, where the first says there was one angel at the tomb after the resurrection, and the John verse says there were two.<br /><br />According to Mikey, these are "not mutually exclusive" since "it is a mathematical certainty that wherever there are TWO there must be ONE"!<br /><br />But that is lapse thinking and zero sum logic. Like saying the population of the U.S. is really ONE, and not 301 million, since wherever there are 301 million there must be one!<br /><br />But logic like that will get a person to the funny farm! But is also shows how and why their brains are so screwed up, probably beyond repair!Copernicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-34217893077837204752010-10-03T17:40:59.186-07:002010-10-03T17:40:59.186-07:00This is a terrific post, about the omissions! Of c...This is a terrific post, about the omissions! Of course, your pastor or make believe pastor, brother - has a new blog up trying to defend his bible and it's hilarious. <br /><br />He says for example that one "mistake" bible critics make is: "Assuming that the Unexplained is Not Explainable"<br /><br />But he doesn't get that this isn't the issue! It's assuming an explanation must be a *supernatural* one. Now, either one has supernatural explanations OR one has natural ones. If one wishes to rely on the last then he goes to science, not the bible! The bible can't even get remote explanations about the origin of the Earth correct, as you pointed out in previous blogs, so how can it can it get any natural explanations correct? It can't! <br /><br />He also blathers: "No real scientist throws up his hands in despair simply because he cannot explain a given phenomenon . He continues to do research with the confident expectation that an answer will be found" but forgets or omits that in the meantime the scientist formulates a *natural hypothesis* (or guess) to forge at least a partial natural explanation!<br /><br />He also says a "mistake" made is:<br /><br />"Presuming the Bible Guilty Until Proven Innocent" and clarifies by adding, "assuming the Bible is wrong until something proves it right "<br /><br />But there is NO "until"! The Bible is finished, done! No one is writing any more of it to explain any more stuff! So what you see is what you get and as you showed, there is not even a thing to explain or account for quantum states in atoms! Well duh...because no one would have even thought of QM back then!!<br /><br />But the classic so-called "mistake" he alleges is: "Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God's Infallible Revelation "<br /><br />But hey, if God couldn't have revealed the true nature of quantum numbers in association with atomic energy levels back then, then HOW can he have an "infallible revelation"<br /><br />It's just like you said, these guys would all have nervous breakdowns if they ever conceded their good books are in error, including by omission!Caleb Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08971916422910289078noreply@blogger.com