by free @ last 44 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
has anybody debunked the canopy of water fabel? how would that be held up? by increased atmospheric pressure? an eden with thousands of pounds of pressure per square centimeter at ground level? the whole in bladder to contain local events? how about the tidal effect?
may be oceans in near earth orbit? the bible writer had no notion of the questions latter day readers would ask to diprove them.
the whole thing is gone and they must know it.
The whole Flood, and Anti-diluvian (pre-flood) as the WT likes to call it, thinking it sounds scholarly or even scientific, is, as we scientists call it, to use the technical term, a LOADABOLLOCKS.
No way was there a Global Flood in the time of Homo Sapiens, the water canopy thing was debunked years ago too, as both factually wrong and theoretically impossible.
The WT goes gaily on ignoring facts and solid evidence that contradicts their silly literalist interpretation of the Bible.
It is a very silly religion, fronted by some very silly men, the GB, who are wound up and sent on their clockwork way by some crafty business men.
Also there is this on the WT's stand on radiocarbon dating- first they of course say it's inaccurate, that it could be off by orders of magnitude, but then cite it as accurate to prove other things. Here's two examples:
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*** w91 11/15 p. 4 Does Devotion to Relics Please God? ***
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...it is obvious that religious relics are often fraudulent. For instance, radiocarbon dating proved the Shroud of Turin to be a fraud. Interestingly, during the heated debate over it in 1988, the well-known Vatican observer Marco Tosatti asked: “If the scientific analysis used on the Shroud was applied to other objects of popular devotion, what would the verdict be?”
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*** w08 12/15 p. 22 Ancient Cuneiform and the Bible *** . ...The book The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating compares the Bible’s history of Israel and Judah with ancient cuneiform texts. The result? “Altogether, 15 or 16 kings of Judah and Israel appear, in foreign sources, in complete agreement with their names and times in [the Bible book of] Kings. Not a single king is out of place, nor do foreign sources name one unknown to us in Kings. . . . So is RCD inaccurate? Or accurate? Or only accurate post-flood? Since there's no way there could have been a global flood (IMO) then that would mean it is a fairly accurate measurement of time, which opens up an entire other thread at least for me...
has anybody debunked the canopy of water fabel?
Many times. Many hundreds of times and ways.
41 million hits to googling "water canopy".
Google is your friend.
Wika pedia and the history channel had some interesting shows on this old chronology stuff. Even a little buried in Barbra Anderson's site. Seems some of the old Millerite and Adventists beliefs were lifted from Sir Issac Newton. Freddie Franz, the 1st year college drop-out that he was, just cut and pasted a hodgepodge of this very old fundy timeline dogma into Watchtower doctrine.
Actually if an adult wants to believe the moon is made of Blue cheese, and they need a purple car to please god...that is OK by me..it's a free country.
What boils my blood is brainwashing crap science into children.
