Dinosaur Files
Is the facts about the world in the Bible were erased would they be rediscovered?
What I mean by this is if you were to start with a clean slate with religion and have all of the information about the world and universe that was presented in the Bible wiped out would it eventually be discovered again in the same way. If the “facts” presented in the Bible were completely erased would it be discovered in the same way again? Now I am trying to compare religion to science. For example, if all of the scientific knowledge that we have now about the world and universe was erased would it be discovered again? The fact is if given enough time it would be re-discovered. Someone would eventually rediscover that the Earth is round, the sun is the center of the solar system, DNA is the building blocks of life, facts about past civilizations and animals, and so on. The reason is because this information does not work off of the basis of faith. It works off of the basis of evidence and facts that can be touched, tested, retested and revised. Yet, if you were to erase the information that was created by religion do you think people would eventually discover the same information presented in the Bible? Do you think people would rediscover that the world was created in 6 days, there was a great flood that covered the Earth, dinosaurs lived during the same time as man, the Earth is 6000 years old, and all beings were created all at once? Now I am not speaking of if the Bible was erased would it be rewritten the same way word for word. What I am saying is would the “truth” that is in the Bible about the world and the universe be rediscovered the way it is written in the Bible like the truth that science can present? What I am trying to show is that without the Bible to guide people on what to believe about the history and facts of the world then the information that it presents as truth about the world would more than likely not be rediscovered unlike the facts that science presents.
Public Comments
- Yesterday's science is tomorrow's religion. At one time, it was scientific knowledge that the sun revolved around the Earth. Now it is not. I would contend that what is now regarded as religion was in many cases the science of the day. For example, the rain dance was probably re-inforced by fledgling science (albeit, faulty science). Someone who did not understand the world did a whole bunch of things to attempt to make it rain - danced, killed the fatted calf, wore blue feathers, whatever. Somewhere, it happened to rain after one or more of these events, and a conclusion drawn was that the activity performed equaled rain. Hence, raindances (or sacrfices, or whatever) became a superstition. Some superstitions became rituals. And rituals grouped with cultural bias to become religion. So would a future culture rediscover the precise biblical form of religion on their way to higher scientific studies? Not likely. But would they invent some other forms of religion, rituals, and superstitions on their way to scientific studies? Absolutely. An analogy would be if you took away the ability and history of writing, would "Grapes of Wrath" ever get written word-for- word again. Probably not. But the society would still learn to write novels.
- I would say, "no." However, I'm not a believer. If I genuinely believed the bible was the product of men divinely inspired by the holy spirit, then it would take no great leap O' faith to assume the H.S. could dictate a new version to new prophets, but that contained the same basic info. Just ask Joe Smith.
- Don't make me laugh. You, my friend, have entirely too much time on your hands. Why? Why would we go there? What happened to the social sciences in your 'practical' scenario. (My quotation marks)? What happened to history, philosophy, anthropology. I'd see but linger no longer than I do now. But that's just me: nothing nice to say.
- In this scenario you left out one vital key. The God that created all things in this universe and inspired men to record and pass this truth on from generation to generation? Well he would do the very same thing in your scenario to. You cannot leave God out of this scenario.
