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On Jul 14, 11:23 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Jul 14, 5:12�pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
> >> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:44f19f98-4d96-4419-a87a-d6bdbd73f31b@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>
> >>>>> Their idea is that if Hezekiah's tunnel exists, then Harry Potter has
> >>>>> to be true because the train station in London is mentioned in Harry
> >>>>> Potter.
> >>>> Exactly. Since we know therefore that harry potter isn't true, the fact
> >>>> of hezekiahs tunnel means the bible is obviously false. Since we have
> >>>> true facts referred to in works of complete fiction.
> >>>> By your reasoning at least.
> >>> Well, you have it exactly as atheists have been telling me it is.
> >>> Don't ask me what it is supposed to mean.
> >>> Robert B. Winn
> >> Here is an example of rbwinn's logic.
>
> >> Sheep are mentioned in the bible
> >> Sheep exist today
> >> The bible is accurate and there is a God
>
> >> --
> >> Steve O
> > Well, no, Steve O.  Here is an example.  Atheists were claiming that
> > nothing existed on earth today that could prove anything in the
> > Bible.
>
> And yet you've been unable to produce these mythical posts. Well, you do
> seem to like myths...
>
> >  So I said, What about Hezekiah's tunnel?  These atheists had
> > never heard of Hezekiah's tunnel.  So after they looked it up, they
> > said, The fact that a tunnel exists no more proves the Bible to be
> > true than Harry Potter leaving from the train station in London to go
> > to wizard's school.
>
> In a slightly mangled sense, yes that was me. I'd never heard of
> Hezekiah's tunnel. Now I have. I still can't see how it supports the
> existence of any gods. Assuming it's the same tunnel (which hasn't been
> established AFAIK), so what? People sometimes write things about stuff.
> Does that automatically render it true?
>
> >    I really believe that it certainly does prove certain verses in the
> > Old Testament to be true which describe the digging of Hezekiah's
> > tunnel.  Otherwise, atheists need to explain why there is a tunnel
> > exactly where the Bible in three books of the Old Testament says a
> > tunnel was dug as a conduit for water.
>
> I might point out that the physical evidence doesn't accord well with
> the account of the tunnel's construction. Even if you're right, it's
> simply shows that a tunnel was built, not that gods exist.
>
> If you want to infer more than is logical from this, go for it! But to
> maintain a degree of intellectual honesty, I cannot follow.- Hide quoted text -

Well, obviously, you have not studied the history of that time.
Robert B. Winn