Evidence for God from Science

the term "world" qualified by "at that time" specifies the scope of the flood as being upon the people or nations of that time The distinction is given in juxtaposition of verse 7 where the present heaven and earth are compared with the one back in that time. So it seems strawma...

the hermeneutic you're employing to reach a desired conclusion and that to me again smacks more of eisogesis that exogesis

I guess we should be grateful, then, after 3000 years of eisogesis, Christians can now be set straight.



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The purpose of the flood was to wipe out this corruption. The main meaning for the Hebrew word for flesh in the Flood chapters, bâsâr, is person or man. The Hebrew dictionary doesn't even make it possible to extend this to animal flesh. God is not talking about the corruption of the animal kingdom,...

It seems to me, that Local flood hypothesis has difficulities when one examines the geography of Mesopotamia. The image below shows the region with water levels 80 meters above normal. The geography of the land shows a natural drain over the delta of the Euphrates and through the Straits of Hormuz. ...

Hello Canuckster, Your analysis of the art of intepretation is interesting but as you might expect, I must disagree with your final conclusion with respect to the Genesis flood. I also believe it was a narrative history but on a global scale. Again, I can not believe that some one can read the event...

Yes. In fact that very process occurs in many mamals. Herd animals in particular only allow breeding with the alpha male. In the case of wolves, breeding only occurs between the alpha male and the alpha female. No ther wolves breed. If whatever process you use leads to an adaptive change, then it i...

I'll grant you that you are in no way required to answer my question, but I was asking for *your* opinion which matters to me. I don't know why my opinion about this is matters to you, except perhaps you are trolling. So let us see... So was pre-flood mankind sort of a rough draft? Did God really r...

OR the fallible men that wrote this into the Bible simply got it wrong on this one.

What other ones did they get wrong? Did they get any of it right? And how do you know which is which?

My judgement of what is "right and fair" is not God's judgement of what is "right and fair". And God is not judged by me. As for the hypothetical question. It is only hypothetical so my opinion doesn't matter. Many look at God's judgments as horrible acts of vengeance and violenc...

Perhaps it is just me, but I am finding that as I attempt to initialize a post, the page will suddenly lurch down to the post review section of the page and so takes the input focus away from the edit box I am beginning to work in. This forces me to scroll back up, reenter the edit box and often ret...

In Revelation, I think the 7 churches addressed are geographic and that would not negate the sense of the Universal Church which is comprised of all true believers. I agree. The regional churches did not negate the universal church. The point is, Jesus recognized those "churches" which we...

Banky wrote:Did he wipe out the Giants too? How come we don't have any fossil records of the Giants?

Good question.
How many fossilized skeletons of "normal" humans do we have that are less than 10,000 years old? (Assuming of course, the flood did occur within the last 10,000 years.)

For example you have probably heard the theory that humanity is "de-evolving" because of a rampant increase in sexual relations, and those that are likely to bear children are, shall we say, less "evolved" than those that are less likely. In my opinion, anyone who believes this ...

Sorry L/T, what question did you ask me? Or are you waiting for me to read Yada Yahweh so it can be discussed???

Perhaps you have the erroneous view that God is about rules... "look, you don't HAVE to, but I'd really like it if you'd stop doing _________" Why not have God say, "here is what I would like you to DO....."? But in fact He has done so in the scriptures. Why does God not reveal H...