But, in its most simple form, your first statement would mean that you can't really be sure that the evidence found in the second statement can really be the truth.
Yes, you successfully reformulated the statement "
science isn't in the business of proving things".
Science can tell you what is
likely true. Approaching Truth (capital 'T'), is the best we humans can do.
Eureka! That's exactly my point.
Then why are you disagreeing with me?
But, you still can't be sure according to your first claim. You only narrow down the degree of uncertainty, but there is still that one in a gazillion chance that you're wrong, according to your first claim
Are you just going to continue repeating/reformulating that science doesn't deal in certainties? Because you are just stating the obvious.
Eureka!! That's exactly my point.
Then why are you disagreeing with me?
That is exactly my point! The Scriptures tell us that a young woman who had never 'been with' a man, gave birth. That child grew into a man who did some fairly miraculous things and then gave his life for my sin.
So?
According to your understanding, only if science could observe such a thing would it make a pretty good case for accepting that such a thing is possible.
Errr... yes? Just like observing someone with spider DNA who can crawl on walls and shoot webs out of his wrists, would make a pretty good case for the existance of Spiderman.
Again - so?
I agree. Except in the singular case of Jesus' conception.
Talk about special pleading...
The claim of people in those days believing that the earth orbits the sun, is based on very limited and flimsy evidence.
I'll go ahead and assume that in context of that sentence, you meant to write "sun orbits the earth".
Geocentrism was the "standard model" of antiquity, well into the middle ages when heliocentrism came along (and met with the inevitable resistance).
Nothing in the bible suggests that the authors of those books, believed any differently.
In fact, several passages seem written with exactly that framework in mind.
Further, I am not putting my faith in all the people of the ancient world, but only the people of Israel. Even today, Jews, by and large, are a very smart and wise people as regards the search and understanding of knowledge. Some of our greatest scientists are Jewish.
While I can't speak for the Huns of Europe and how much they knew about the basic operation of our solar system, or the Greeks or Romans or Asians, it is the Jewish race that I am concerned with because all of our knowledge of God comes through them.
Indeed, everything you think you know about the abrahamic god, has found its way to you in one of the largest scale telephone games in the history of humanity.
Generations upon generations of
humans.
God raised up a particular people and through them He revealed Himself to the world. Only through them.
Lucky them.
Through them He delivered His Son to death
Neat.
Everything that we know about God comes strictly and only through Judaism. That was God's plan and that was why God called Abram of Ur in Chaldea.
Quetzalcoatl disagrees. And I know, because he just told me. These are his words, not mine. ;-)
