Christians: Why are scientists more likely to be non-believers?

How do you know the book you are quoting is accurate?

Why are you bringing “(non-)magical” into this? Unless you consider the deliberate, organized effort by a supreme being to be “magical” and the spontaneous, no-thought effort by something to transmute itself into something else as “natural.”:dubious:

Abiogenesis would seem magical, as it would violate the laws of biogenesis.

‘Biogenesis is the production of new living organisms or organelles. The law of biogenesis, attributed to Louis Pasteur, is the observation that living things come only from other living things, by reproduction (e.g. a spider lays eggs, which develop into spiders). That is, life does not arise from non-living material, which was the position held by spontaneous generation.[1][2]’

If you would like to cite what you think is the biggest inaccuracy in the BIble, that will be explained to you gladly. One at a time if you wish, please.

The world-wide flood that covered the Earth.

Since you like wikipedia, please read this entry.

On a side note, aren’t you a fan of magic? I mean, what did your deity use to create life if not magic?

We can start at the beginning:

Genesis states that plants lived without the Sun.

Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Then God creates the Sun and Moon on the next day:

1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
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Note: God is apparently confused, since the moon is not a light at all (and thus, not a ‘lesser light’), it reflects the Sun’s light. *

Wot? So you are saying everyone should park their brains at the door when reading Scripture? :confused:

Genesis states there was light before the sun.

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Maybe you want to explain how plants could have waited millions of years for animals to fertilize them and for the necessary carbon dioxide, according to evolution.

Notice the difference between ‘law’ and ‘hypotheses’.

If you like historical accounts, see these (from an evolution-biased site).

Google underwater civilizations also, that should be good enough to start.

Um, no. You cited the book. I want to know on what basis you have vetted the book as an authority, and why we should also consider it an authority.

Yeah, floods happen all the time. Where is the evidence for a single world-wide flood that covered the Earth?

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-**myths**.html

Anything else?

Also, if you want to use the few stories from your cite that actually involve a world-wide flood as evidence, then they must also be evidence of other gods and goddesses allowing other people besides Noah’s crew to survive.

Fulfilled prophecy, which you will not find in any other text, with no inaccuracies.

So then the Sun is unnecessary for life on earth?

Also, no comment on the Moon being a light? Or do you think it is one?

Why would I do that? That’s not what scientists say, that’s only what uneducated creationists think scientists say.

My guess is that you think scientific knowledge is a hierarchy, with ‘law’ at the top, hypothesis at the bottom and ‘theory’ as something akin to an educated guess, right?

You take this on faith, which is obvious. I’ve already shown a few inaccuracies.

Those aren’t historical accounts. There are thousands of myths about vampires, do you believe they are historical?

Which we have already done. We spent post on post explaining it to you.
Upon which you went quiet for several months and now you want to pretend we never had that conversation?

Just to start, how about sea-life fossils on the top of mountain ranges? Any fossils, for that matter, indicate rapid burial from floodlike conditions. The geologic column is not correct, but those layers do give evidence of some catastrophic event. Keep in mind, a giant meter impact would not leave billions of perfectly preserved fossils.