The swoon theory is a PRATT.I don't believe it has a significant probability, but still, the swoon theory persists. Here is a lengthy article on it.
Jesus Christ did not Die on the Cross – A Cardiologist’s Perspective - The Review of Religions
Most apologists, even atheists, are rather hesitant to accept it though.
The swoon theory is a PRATT.
When the persecutions started, the disciples would have just produced Jesus for them, and that would have put an end to it.
Or at least, admitted that they had lied.
Really? Tree ring dating only goes back a maximum (and I mean the upper, upper limit) is 11,000 years. That is assuming normal growth patterns for those trees in all those thousands of years.
The Bristlecone Pine is the oldest living tree I believe at only 5,063 years old, so where they come up with the 11,000, I don't know.
The assumption is the earth was formed by magma/lava/volcanoes, but according to the Bible, God made the firmament (the crust) the dry land and the seas. If God did make the firmament, then every dating method being used to date the crust goes out the window.
The implication here is that the proportions of lead to uranium etc. in the crust have always been what they are ever since the Creation.
The Bristlecone Pine is the oldest living tree I believe at only 5,063 years old, so where they come up with the 11,000, I don't know.
They say adding iron and sand is all it takes to preserve organic material for 65+ million years. If that were true, where is all the innovation? Red Cross blood banks, the food industry, and just about everything that has a shelf life could benefit from that, IF it was true. Just the background radiation in the ground over millions of years would destroy any tissue. Some people just don't like to go where some facts lead.
Finding soft tissue on dinosaurs, extracting an entire genome from a 700,000 year old horse while DNA has a half-like of 521 years and now this lead me to believe in a young Earth:
See, I think he actually knows a lot of this stuff, he's just wilfully ignoring it. ... I just think he may be so rooted in his faith that nothing could supplant it
I suppose I could try pointing out dendochronology, but I do expect to get a 'god works in mysterious ways' type answer - or 'how do you know?' once again.
Tree rings are matched up with events that cause regional or global environmental conditions that effect tree growth that particular year. Those rings are matched between overlapping rings in living and preserved trees going back to about 12,000 years.
It's not exactly rocket science.
That's the beauty of interpreting things about the past and claiming them as facts. Nothing will break down or blow up if you're wrong. If discrepancies arise then it's just a matter of deciding which weakest links will be discarded as anomalies in order to preserve the dating model.
General Apologetics was closed a number of years ago. This is the forum for discussing Creationism and Evolution. The topic for this thread is deep time.
The Resurrection is off topic for this thread and subforum.
I remember about a week before it was closed, Jesus was called something I wouldn't let my wife read.And why was it closed. Having posted more than a few times in there, my impression was that the christians were constantly losing.
And why was it closed. Having posted more than a few times in there, my impression was that the christians were constantly losing.
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