Rob

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ninjad

Good night!

In any case, I need to head to bed - I'll come back and see if I can go through your links (given I have time)

I hope I do not come across as offensive

Anyway, I am sorry if I sound somewhat combative... I tend to be terse when discussing topics

But we are discussing it today, not in that time

The fact that the authors were somehow not perfect (not sure why women is related?) doesn't really add credence in my eyes

But debating the accuracy of the bible extends quite a bit further, which I'm not so versed in

I have read the bible, yes. I was sent to a catholic school

Same as I would be skeptical about any account of anything which was clearly biased in a certain direction

That's an honest answer

Would I believe historical accounts of Rome which only served to paint Rome in a good light? No

Did he not climb a mountain to build the boat?

@Matthew That is fair... but it also assumes no mountains existed during Noah's time

(that wasn't a dig, I'm honestly not extremely well versed in the history of the bible despite attending a religious school)... but so far as I know none of the authors of the bible existed at that time

@Matthew Well, I'm not a scholar, but those who wrote the bible did so at least one generation after jesus

@Matthew That's plainly not true. Even if all the ice caps melted we wouldn't even cover elevated cities

Or am I missing something?

Jesus didn't found any religion, nor is he the first person people claim to have resurrected

So, it must have disappeared, that is, a supernatural event. How would it not be supernatural?

You said that it's not supernatural, but if it did happen, surely the water went somewhere. There isn't enough water left to flood the earth as described by noah's flood

Disproving the entire bible is unfortunately biting off more than I can chew. But given the fact that there are (as you said) over 300 legends describing a flood: 1) Do they all agree on the same time? 2) Do they all agree on the same biblical reason? (If not, how is that proof of the Christian god)?

In other words, I'm willing to believe there may have been a global flood, but I'm not convinced. Is there a possibility we could maybe meet half way once reviewing the above?

And I don't mean believing it was a natural occurrence, but merely believing it may be possible?

If I could find a counter argument that could explain your above points without a global flood, would you perhaps be swayed towards believing it may have a non supernatural explanation?

@Matthew Thank you for the links, I'll go through them tomorrow (it's nearly 6am here).

@Matthew I'd like a bit of clarification about this. Radioactive decay depends on the mass of the object. Where have you obtained the ~100,000 year figure from?

But, let's address the flood and datings first

I am honestly unaware of any first-hand texts (christian or not) which describe the miracles of jesus. These seems to all be written generations after the fact

So, I am willing to accept evidence pointing towards a god, but I am not willing to accept religious texts (without unbiased verification) as more solid proof than other texts (without unbiased verification).

I should probably clarify; I'm an atheist whose stance is 'God might exist', but there is no reason to believe the Christian god exists. That's quite different from 'God does not exist'.

Regarding dating, how old do you believe the earth to be?

@Matthew Okay, I'll be honest that I'm a bit confused about the Nye vs Ham (I haven't time at the moment to watch it all, but I will shortly) discussion... would tracks not be washed away during a flood?

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/68190323/563532

Sure, one sec

!!/test techzoan.com/how-to-clear-bing-search-engine-history

Also, I must have missed the other link they posted

@Mast Yes, it's from this one. That user posted 3 spam answers, one two of which were caught

!!/watch free-robuxnoverification\.com

!!/watch mycomputerwindows10\.com

!!/watch nodezap

!!/test nodezap

!!/test blog.angular-university.io/angular2-router

!!/test angular-university

Worth blacklisting that site, by the way. Found four links: stackoverflow.com/questions/65287508/… stackoverflow.com/questions/65250047/… stackoverflow.com/questions/65352094/how-to-add-location stackoverflow.com/questions/63949533/…

!!/test ashstyles

Nuked it now though

@Yatin Hadn't seen the other spam links to the site, just seemed like a bad question

@schroeder Not advocating for this approach but the issue of hash collisions can be trivially solved at user creation by checking if there's a collision. If there is, generate a new salt.