[QUOTE=cmyk]
What gets me, is I’m fairly familiar with the bible and I don’t remember anywhere it speaking of the earth necessarily being the center of the solar system/universe? Not only are they way off on the science, but they’re not even getting the bible down right. Or web design, either.
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I’m not that fluent in the Bible. However, the site proclaims (in its Joshua’s Long Day section):
Where does it say that?
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
I am a bacon, lettuce, tomato and bacon sandwich. With bacon salt.
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Everything is bacon in a Flandercentric Universe. By that model, you are a bacon, bacon, bacon, and bacon sandwich with bacon. With all that bacon, no wonder you took a core dump.
[QUOTE=DiggitCamara]
I’m not that fluent in the Bible. However, the site proclaims (in its Joshua’s Long Day section)
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I’ve heard this brought up in the christian community. Why couldn’t this mean God simply stopped the earth’s rotation? Piece of cake for God. And earth is a lot lighter and cooler than the sun, so he wouldn’t have to exert Himself or burn his fingers.
[QUOTE=cmyk]
I’ve heard this brought up in the christian community. Why couldn’t this mean God simply stopped the earth’s rotation? Piece of cake for God. And earth is a lot lighter and cooler than the sun, so he wouldn’t have to exert Himself or burn his fingers.
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Actually, I think that the God they worship is a rather limited one. Like you say, what speaks against an omnipotent deity stopping the rotation of a paltry little speck like ours?
Even worse: why would God be constrained by anything the Bible says? After all, the collection of writings that comprise the Bible are readily comprehensible to our tiny intellects; the Universe’s inner workings are far too vast for us to understand completely (IMHO).
But that wasn’t actually my question. I wanted to know whether any of this site’s Bible scholars can actually point me to a chapter and verse that speaks about the infallibility of the scriptures themselves.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Sure, but in my brain, it’s a-round, like-a this apple.
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It’s flat like this panca-ake.
[QUOTE=Belrix]
It’s flat like this panca-ake.
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It’s a-round! Like-a my head!
[QUOTE=tdn]
It’s a-round! Like-a my head!
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Whack! It’s flat, like-a your head.
Man, I love that one…
[QUOTE=DiggitCamara]
Where does it say that?
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Wikipedia’s Bibilical Inerrancy article cites Timothy 2 3:16
KJV. QED.
ETA: Wonderfully loopy (both meanings meant) reasoning there: the Bible must be the inerrant word of God. Why? Because the Bible says so. But the Bible says something that contradicts our current understanding of the universe. In that case our understanding of the universe must be wrong. Why? Because if not, God is a liar. Why is that? Because the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Why? Because the Bible says so. Rinse and repeat.
In their link section, The Holy Bible -> The Bible Code, they present the case that Hebrew can’t be relied upon as a language because you have to guess which vowels go between the consonants. And sometimes the vowels go before and after the consonants. And sometihmes there can be too vowels because of the blends. So “bt” can be in 19 different forms.
They also suggest because the spacing and kerning of Hebrew characters is monotype, it can be read like an acrostic (crossword puzzle), and thus with just consonants, can be read forwards, backwards, vertically, and diaganolly, meaning that more words can be made if you know the code. And since that means knowledge is hidden, Hebrew bibles are occult and you should burn them and only stick with the King James Version. Because that doesn’t include ways to interpret passages differently.
[QUOTE=Knowed Out]
and only stick with the King James Version. Because that doesn’t include ways to interpret passages differently.
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Even ignoring all the hyperbole about burning things, this bit right here is just stunningly, breathtakingly, jaw-droppingly dumb. Wow. :eek:
[QUOTE=jjimm]
Wikipedia’s Bibilical Inerrancy article cites Timothy 2 3:16KJV. QED.
ETA: Wonderfully loopy (both meanings meant) reasoning there: the Bible must be the inerrant word of God. Why? Because the Bible says so. But the Bible says something that contradicts our current understanding of the universe. In that case our understanding of the universe must be wrong. Why? Because if not, God is a liar. Why is that? Because the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Why? Because the Bible says so. Rinse and repeat.
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This sort of reasoning got life found guilty of failing to be either beautiful or true and confiscated from a courtroom full of people!
[QUOTE=Flander]
Everything is bacon in a Flandercentric Universe. By that model, you are a bacon, bacon, bacon, and bacon sandwich with bacon. With all that bacon, no wonder you took a core dump.
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I DON’T LIKE BACON!
It’s an acquired taste.
How about bacon salt? It’s kosher!
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
I DON’T LIKE BACON!
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There there. I’ll have your bacon. I’m having bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, baked beans, bacon, bacon, bacon, and bacon.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I’m going to post a link on a creationist message board I sometimes visit - see what they make of it…
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OOO!
Neato! 
[QUOTE=wheelie]
There there. I’ll have your bacon. I’m having bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, baked beans, bacon, bacon, bacon, and bacon.
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Well, to be fair, that doesn’t have much bacon in it.
[QUOTE=Derleth]
“In Your Heart, You Know It’s Flat”
:fnord:
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“There’s nothing to Sphere but Sphere Itself.”
but Watch Your Step.
[QUOTE=Knowed Out]
In their link section, The Holy Bible -> The Bible Code, they present the case that Hebrew can’t be relied upon as a language because you have to guess which vowels go between the consonants. And sometimes the vowels go before and after the consonants. And sometihmes there can be too vowels because of the blends. So “bt” can be in 19 different forms.
They also suggest because the spacing and kerning of Hebrew characters is monotype, it can be read like an acrostic (crossword puzzle), and thus with just consonants, can be read forwards, backwards, vertically, and diaganolly, meaning that more words can be made if you know the code. And since that means knowledge is hidden, Hebrew bibles are occult and you should burn them and only stick with the King James Version. Because that doesn’t include ways to interpret passages differently.
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As someone who spent months studying the bible academically (indeed often using a KJV) and had a minor mental breakdown attempting to write a paper about the book of Job, this makes me twitch.
And as someone who, as I was studying the bible, was also studying first Ptolemy then Copernicus, this makes me convulse violently.
Excuse me, I’m off to go whimper in a corner about the bad men and unholy perversions of logic.