Genesis Veracity wrote:Leona, would you bet your life that a C14 date is accurate?
More accurate than anything in your bible.
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Genesis Veracity wrote:Leona, would you bet your life that a C14 date is accurate?
I'm so glad you mention that GV - here's how creationists bullshit their followers:Genesis Veracity wrote:More impressive than dates of hundreds of years for day-old tissues, I hope.
And when a date comes back from what looks to be a good sample going in, but it comes back "too far off," then what excuse do they come up with for why what had been a good sample is "actually" now a bad sample?
Very hokey.
And that, my friends, is how creationists pervert science to mislead the ignorant.
Minimalist wrote: BTW, I saw another treatise the other day which suggested that the alleged reference of P. Cornelius Tacitus to Christ and Christians and even Nero's so-called persecution was also a later insertion. I need to go find that again. Very interesting stuff, if somewhat O/T.
The text is full of difficulties, and there are not a few textual variations in the mss tradition (e.g., "Christianos" or "Chrestianos" or even "Christianus"? - "Christus" or "Chrestos"?) -- which at least reflects the fact that this text has been worked over.
It is not even clear what Tacitus means to say - e.g., whether he implies that the charge of setting the fires brought against Christians was false; whether some Christians were arrested because they set fires and others because of their general "hatred for humankind"; what those persons arrested "confessed" to -- arson or Christianity? -- or whether they were executed by crucifixion or immolation, or some one way and some in another.
But the real question concerns the historical reliability of this information -- i.e., whether we have to do here with a later Christian insertion. When I consider a question such as this, the first question to ask is whether it conceivable or perhaps even probable that later Christians might have modified ancient historical sources; and the answer to this question certainly must be yes! Then, with regard to this particular source, I note that the earliest manuscript we have for the Annales dates from the 11th century, and must therefore have been copied and recopied many times, by generations of Christian scribes (and Christian apologists). So there were certainly many opporunities to modify what Tacitus originally wrote.
I don't know if Min. read your articles but I did. Are you kidding? Those articles have as much validity as me saying "Pigs can fly."Genesis Veracity wrote:Hey min, to read about the historical accuracy of the Gospels, check-out article #5 at www.GenesisVeracity.com.