Quote from: BADecker on August 18, 2014, 05:48:23 PM

Actually, all these things are interpretations of certain kinds of evidence. Since we don't know how the evidence was "deposited" there, because we weren't there to observe it, we don't know if we are interpreting it correctly.

This I can't argue against, but I will say I feel more comfortable taking an educated guess by extrapolating trends instead of reading the ramblings of some old dudes about "how it all is" Roll Eyes

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FFS most all crap written by humans (except hard engineering material) is just subjective drivel. Always has been, always will be.

Quote from: BADecker on August 18, 2014, 05:48:23 PM

While the Bible leaves some of its areas open to interpretation, it is also a book of records, where people recorded what they have observed.

Examine the Bible the same way you examine all science, and you will find that the Bible outdoes everything else in all areas of accuracy.

"I saw 16 UFOs last night, they descended in a perfect circle and landed, one of them dropped a ladder, down which came a small grey alien wearing a denim suit."

There! I wrote down a claim in a record, do you trust I am telling the truth?

Any process that requires trusting information is NOT scientific (that's an axiom on which bitcoin is constructed BTW).

Also the bible has been subject to "chinese whispers" where information is corrupted as time passes. For example the 7 days of creation, the oldest known texts do not use the word "day" but "cycle". Not that it matters when the original text was just some dude writing stuff anyway.

Also, Just because something is old doesn't make it better, often it makes it crapper. But lots of people think only old texts can contain truths, like the old fashioned folk were completely trustworthy and never knew how to lie in order manipulate their game, bullshit! They probably lied more profusely because it would have been more difficult to cross reference and audit back then.