Scientists go from the assumption that the Bible isn't secular history, and in that they are right. Apples and oranges.
Zion wrote: > John: > Has anyone on the list read GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL by Jared Diamond? It won > > the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1998. I am about half way > through it, and I'm getting bogged down. > > This guy is a scientist and a historian, but he keeps explaining how > domesticated plants were developed by man. He also explains how sheep came > > to be domesticated. Now he is talking about how the use of writing > originated. > > Dan: > I had started to read it several months ago, but didn't get very far. One > of the things that bothered me about it was in his discussion of the > conquest of South America. He based his estimates of the numbers of natives > slain on a series of letters that - to me at least - read as propaganda > tracts to the king of Spain. Now the numbers may actually be accurate, but > when they are combined with statements like "we did this in the glory of > your kingship" they ring a little inflated. That wasn't the reason that I > quit reading it, but is one of the things I remembered from it. > > John: > I thought that Cain raised grain, and Able raised sheep? Am I wrong? And > I also thought that the language of Adam was the Adamic language, and that > it is the language that was spoken by all peoples before their tongues were > > confounded at the time of the Tower of Babel. What is wrong with this > picture. Are the scriptures wrong? Or is this scientist just making > things up? Maybe the scriptures really are just an ancient collection of > Hebrew folk talks. Is that possible? > > Dan: > The problem with the study of truly ancient languages and cultures is the > lack of real records. A lot of this type of scholarship has to be based on > supposition; personal bias will get in the way. I don't think that there is > really any way around that. If a scholar starts from the supposition that > the Bible is strictly a regional record - and most seem to - then it gets > ignored. > > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Guns don�t kill people; people with guns kill people Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author�s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ${list_promo}
