Critical Thinking and the Bible #1

The first in the series of videos that will apply critical thinking to the Bible, thus explaining why many critical thinkers have come to disbelieve.

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• creationism
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[heyawhaw]

A not so obvious detail you mentioned but didn't explain:

Cut down a living tree that is 200 years old, and compare it to a dead tree that lived for 500 years but died 100 years ago. They rings would overlap for 100 year and you could compare the rings for wet/dry years and match them up to see that the dead tree died 100 years ago. You can also do this to go back thousands of years ... even before the univers was created :)

[nathanaelstacy1]

@heyawhaw Precisely. Amount of rain, amount of sun, desert dust storms that originate thousands of miles from the forests being studied, volcanic eruptions (things that make for hazy skies)... A lot of things combine to make for a very interesting chronological tool... Amazing how all those things happened before the universe began, isn't it!

[Isabela874]

Now, think with me. This was written almost 2000 years b.C. Did they use the Solar Calendar at this time? I don't think so.

And think about the people that were supposed to read this at that time! That's why was written in such a simple way.

[nathanaelstacy1]

Hi Isabela. It seems you haven't fully analyzed your solar/lunar calendar point. It seems you think that the differences between the modern solar calendar, and the lunar calendar used by the ancient Hebrews would make up for the millions of years' discrepancy between the Genesis account and reality. You should research this point.

As for your second point, simplifying a statement shouldn't make it false. Simple or not, the Genesis account must either be true or false.

[MsSanoe]

love dis 1 .. ur right creation was not 6days but restoration can be...Creation happened in Gn.1:1. in vs.2 destruction vs.3 restoration... no one knows how long it was in between vs 1 & vs 2..it could be 100,000,000 years not sure but still creation or restoration is an ack of GODs love..

[abwsmmg]

I'm not a JW but I believe the world was created more than 7 solar days, yet I believe the world was created in "Generations". Genesis 2:4-5 (KJV) - "These are the GENERATIONS of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew..." Please continued to read the Scriptures, there are "nuggets of gold" for understanding.

[nathanaelstacy1]

@mhoytus Precisely.

[mhoytus]

Continued:

I suppose they could say that the “day” varies. But I see that as an ad hoc argument, by changing the definition of the word in question, to meet whatever the hypothesis is. If they argue that a “day” is a large number such as a million years; then change the definition when it doesn’t add up, then you’re committing a logical fallacy. It’s internally inconsistent and bias.

[mhoytus]

For old earth creationists (such as JW’s): If a “day” equals a thousand (or more likely millions of) years; if Adam was created on the sixth day (Genesis 1); then god rested on the seventh; then Adam and Eve sinned sometime after the seventh, then you’d expect Adam to have lived thousands or millions of years, since his life spanned at least one “day” (the seventh). Yet, Genesis 5:5 says Adam lived 930 years. How can a “day” be more than his total years?

[formless777]

Given that the Solar Calendar is most logical, why weren't God's people told about it ahead of time ? And why did they think the Earth was flat ? Given their deity was the font of all knowledge, how could these truths not be in scripture ? Why did it take secular thinkers observing the world and risking their necks by publishing in a hostile religious climate to allow these truths to become known ?