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Trevor Wilson wrote:
> "Sam Stone" <sirian@mental.org> wrote in message
> news:Rx2Ad.1636812$SM5.132115@news.easynews.com...
> > Bama Brian wrote:
> >
> >>> When a species determines its level of awareness, either morally,
> >>> scientifically, or otherwise it is always pertinent to examine the
> >>> process and see if it is inherently representative of the biases of its
> >>> authors.
> >>
> >>
> >> The problem for the Creationists is that the scientific method simply
> >> works whether one believes in it or not, while a belief in the Bible or
> >> in God as the Creator is a circular argument, with no basis whatsoever in
> >> fact.
> >
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > It strikes me there is still a significant, though rather tattered,
> > re-translated, even maddeningly incomplete transcribed record of our
> > origins, one measured in the eye of the day, both ethical and societal.
> >
> > In essence the Bible, and its root scrolls, are early science
> > (observation) and history all pasted together.
> 
> **No. There is no science of any recognisable kind in the Bible. There is
> some history, some poetry and some philosophy. There is a good deal of
> hysterical ranting too. There's no science.

Well. there's *bad* science. Leviticus 11:21-23 lists things with four legs
and includes grasshoppers in that listing. And Leviticus 11:6 says hares
chew their cud...

> >[...]
> > Lacking but a sporadic frequency of accepted prophets to carry the message
> > of the Creator we choose to either accept or reject His essence based on
> > His inability to be measured by our instruments and physical reality.
> >
> > Yet His periodicity is in most records more frequent than the global
> > innundation we know also occurs from time to time.
> 
> **Huh? Which "Global inundation" would that be? Given that there is not a
> shred of evidence of such a thing, I would be most interested in knowing
> more. When did this "Global inundation" occur? In your answer, you may care
> to factor in the 50,000+ years of continuous occupation of Australia, by the
> Aboriginals. AFAIK, 50,000 years pre-dates any written language. SO, where
> is this evidence you speak of, given that there has been no "Global
> inundation" for AT LEAST 50,000 years. Additionally, there is no
> archaeological evidence to suggest such an occurrence, either.

He's not claiming just ONE inundation, multiple ones: 

 the global innundation we know also occurs from time to time

Not only does he have to explain the one but the others he claims.

RT