Recent content by damoncasale

I like that approach. :) Well, I'm sorry that that's been your experience. I'm not actually looking for a *Christian* forum, though. Instead, I'm looking for a scholarly one that tries to be objective about the text. And by "objective" I don't mean secularly biased and claiming all sorts...

Actually found that as well, and posted that in the other forum I mentioned. Forgot to link it here, though. :) Anyway, she had the idea of a polemic, too, but the article I'm talking about showed how Genesis 1-3 takes several themes from ancient near eastern creation literature and turns...

Which is why I decided to try another forum. :) I did find a Yahoo group which seems like it might work, at least for the scholarly approach I'm looking for. I also found a web site of a person who started off religious but ended up a secular humanist due to problems he found in the bible...

Okay, point taken. I wasn't getting that specific. However, the point I was making was that the religion of Islam had a huge influence on the thinking of Arabs and non-Arabs, and after the 11th century AD, it went mostly downhill in terms of scientific endeavor because of that particular...

Without getting into an argument (something that seems to be rather common on this forum, sadly), you might want to actually explain the Muslim view a bit more, for the record. First of all, this is MY UNDERSTANDING and might be partly or wholly wrong. However, after reading books like "The...

...really? So you're saying, all the history I'll ever need is in the bible? I can ignore secular histories (which might have additional facts and details, etc.) and just read the bible? I'm sorry, I can hardly believe you're saying this. I'm not crediting other ancient literature with...

Dude, what is it with the trusting other ancient texts? What does that have to do with what I just said? It's like you're not even reading what I wrote. Either that, or not really understanding it. I'm not looking at other ancient texts for doctrine, and that, in my opinion, is the only...

Actually, before I really understood what I was doing, I followed the biblical instructions for casting out a demon (e.g., pray and fast) and cast out two over the course of a couple of years, while I was in college. One of them was in a cousin of mine, and another was in someone I met over the...

I see. I suppose that makes sense of why you see things the way you do, then. Myself, I see the same parallels, but I consider them to have influenced the biblical account. Genesis 1-3 became a polemic which used the same literary style to refute the moral relativism of Sumer, for instance...

Egyptian chronology is actually rather solid, but can be improved on. Have you heard of either David Rohl or Gary Greenberg? I mentioned both earlier in this thread. Gary Greenberg wrote articles showing that Manetho's dynastic lists are actually much more reliable than scholars have...

Okay, well, that wasn't very helpful. Let me try another tact. What specific resources have you looked at, scientifically speaking? What was it that convinced you that, basically, you can throw away science when it disagrees with a literal interpretation of the bible? I'm curious as to...

Have you ever studied scientific dating techniques? And I mean, really studied them, not just looked at what's on Answers in Genesis, because those articles have holes in their logic that you won't necessarily know about or see unless you go study the techniques for yourself. I'm asking...

I'm also waiting to see if KW or Mark Kennedy answer my posts. I mean, I can understand and respect their positions, and I'm *hoping* for reciprocity. Waiting to see if that happens. :) Damon

Okay, well, I have doubts. I've purposefully avoided the topic of evolution because that's not my expertise, but from what I've researched, Egyptian chronology goes back to about 3100 BC. For at least 500 years before that, we have archaeological remains showing that the same peoples were...

Browse to www dot ldolphin dot org, search for the word "tablet" on the page, then click on the link for "tablet theory of Genesis authorship". It gives a pretty good explanation for why Genesis may have been composed as a series of tablets by Adam, Noah, etc. themselves, and then later...