Bible older than we thought?

[TimCallahan]

WaterBreather: I'm back. In the time I've been gone, have you found anything to substantiate a date for the Kebra Nagast that would make it anywhere near the time of even the divided monarchies of Israel and Judah? As far as I can tell, it was written sometime since the time of Christ.

 

[Marduk]

Umm, if you're going to ascribe the work of someone born and raised in Egypt to Greece just because he was an ethnic Greek, should I understand that the UK gets the credit for most US patents?

yes, all of them except Microsoft English (US)

You're disqualifying him on account of his race?
Isn't that a little... racist?

(What's this thread about again? I forget.)

I'm disqualifying him because he wasn't Egyptian, Egyptian is not a race.

 

[godless dave]

Until now, many scholars have held that the Hebrew Bible originated in the 6th century B.C

I know of no scholar who ever claimed that. Parts of the Bible are definitely older than that. This is not news.

 

[Marduk]

I know of no scholar who ever claimed that. Parts of the Bible are definitely older than that. This is not news.

I think hes confusing "originating" with "compiled"

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

What will the Creationists do?

~~ Paul

Dang, that makes the YEC math all wrong, doesn't it.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

to refer to the most powerful force in humanity (Theism)
as lunacy
is to ignore the evidence of thousands of years of history
its blatant denial

where did science come from?
who were the first scientists?
what was darwins, newtons, einsteins, copernicus, descartes, galileos, etc beliefs?

lunacy
according to mr nobody?

well then
lets have more lunacy
its clearly a GOOD thing

Oh my.... you have a bit of explaining to do.

All those thousands of years of theist explanations for how the Universe works amounted to no more than superstition.

Science, OTOH, has cured diseases, developed jets and space vehicles, allowed men to walk on the Moon, and sent a Rover to Mars which is still functioning years later. Science is how we came to understand geology, and biology.

We know how life evolved, we can manipulate genes to cure cancers and correct genetic defects, we can produce vaccines from yeast cultures.



So what thousands of years of believing in superstitious 'lunacy' is it you claim 'science' came from?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

.....
Keep denying that Theism is the most powerful force in humanity.
.....

This relies entirely on how you define MOST powerful force.

If you define is as most responsible for war and prejudice and perpetuating ignorance, maybe theism does deserve the honors.

If you define it as advancing humankind along in achievement, my money's on science.


As for all theists being lunatics, I agree with you there, it is a completely false claim.