Strong in him no one denies the numerous unmanned missions that have taken place. But they are what they are unmanned flights.
No, they were manned by astronauts. Some of the missions were unsuccessful and the astronauts lost their lives.
Good luck with telling their bereaved families that their loved ones were never on those flights.
You then say what has happened has happened with the loss of much of the Apollo data and technology
No, I said that the moon landings happened. That was what was behind my "deal with it" comment.
They took place more than 50 years ago. Whatever we are debating now can't change what happened then.
You say it’s probably not possible now to create a moon base. Yet nothing could be further from the truth NASA is still planning to build a community on the moon as of 2022.
What I meant was that, at one point, NASA may have intended to create a moon base. Either they changed their minds, or didn't have the resources.
That is not proof that no one has ever walked on the moon.
As to the eye witness accounts of apostles and others living at the time of the Bible well our thousand’s of papyrus manuscripts and scriptural quotations from the church fathers gives us a mostly consistent reading of the Bible and what is claimed for well over 2000 yrs later .
Agreed.
But none of the original scrolls and documents now exist. If we were to follow through on your logic; not having the original scrolls means the Bible was never written.
Obviously that's incorrect.
So IF there are no longer any original documents relating to the moon landings, that does not mean that they never happened.
A big difference when trying to evaluate the Apollo missions.
No.
Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived, died and rose again. His life, death and resurrection were recorded and there were eyewitnesses. At some point those accounts, and documents, were put together to make up the Bible. This still exists today - millions of people have at least one copy of it, even though we no longer have the original scrolls.
The moon landings happened. They were documented and there were eyewitnesses. Some of these are still alive.
Even if every piece of the original documentation has been lost, there are still people around today who testify that they walked on the moon. Their families can no doubt tell us what it was like to have a husband/father/brother in space, not knowing if they would see them again.
There is eyewitness testimony to the fact that Jesus is alive and changing lives today.
There is eyewitness testimony to the fact that men walked on the moon.