What scientific evidence distinctly discredits the Bible?

Question

Go on. The Bible is unreliable you say, and is just a series of fictional works. Prove it. Tell me why it should not be trusted, considering that most of what we know about history comes from similar documents, many of which are religious in nature.

Go on, tell me...

Bulai: Umm...actually it would make alot more sense for him to say "sun stand still" than ot would to say "earth stand still", being that NO ONE ON EARTH was aware of the exact movement of celestial bodies...

Wait a second, last time I checked, scientists were recanting their previous statements that we descended form apes, and were "correcting themselves" by saying that we, IN THEORY, share a common ancestor. If this had been proven a fact, we would not now be having this discussion. I gotta go finish raking, maybe someone can actually give me a good one here before I return...

Weird Darryl: go on and read the rest of Isa. 27.

It makes it clear that Damascus would not be completely destroyed, ("...and Damascus will lose it's independance. Those Syrians who survive will be like Israel..."

Now back to my question, can anyone prove the Bible wrong?

Say no to Jesus: HA! Your answer (more specifically, your ignorance of recent archaeological findings,) has inspired me to write an entirely seperate post...only that I have to finish raking first. In the meantime, I suggest that you get caught up, because the flood really is no longer a question, it happened, and those who say it never did are only hanging on to their hope...lessness and stubbornness, because they know that the notion of a worldwide flood gives us an answer to your precious fossil record, and forces you to once again flip on your "self correcting mechanism" button...

As for Jesus being born in Bethlehem, this was only contested before scientists discovered that Bethlehem really DID exist at the time of his birth. Hmmm, once again, the Bible remains unchallenged. Like I said, go do some reading...

Riegnan: You assume that an all powerful God could not perform miracles, or that his existance is negated by his miracles? As for the Dinosaurs, what does that have to do with the age of the earth?

justsome: I reaally want to answer yours, but I have to go finish raking. I will email you. Let me just say this, I don't think that first passage was ONLY referring to a literal snake, but I do know that God has delivered me from circumstances far more deadly than any poison snake...

How to Spot: all you have done is make an opinionated, and rather hateful statement. I assure you sir, I have done my homework, and I take God's word over any mans...

reigen: In response to yor edit: Nooooo...what I am saying is that in the instance that there IS an entity of some sort who was able to create our whole universe, then he most certainly WOULD be able to perform such comparatively smaller miracles.

It really surprises me how some people blind themselves to avoid just admitting when they are wrong.

Ediit: I'm sorry, "when they COULD be wrong"...

Just to be fair...

Answer 1

let's see:
1) there was a talking snake in the garden of eden - snakes don't talk
2)all of the animals on the planet fit into one boat made by a man who lived for hundreds of years - that would have to be one heck of a boat, and men don't live that long
3)some virgin lady got pregnant by some divine being - i won't even go there
4)the entire population of the planet is due to one man and one woman - we would all be inbred morons if that were true
5)intelligent design??? evolution is happening everyday all around us, yet you are blind to it
6) the world was created 6000 years ago - ummm dinosaurs???
shall i go on, or go back to work?

EDIT: if you can use the excuse that an all powerful god can perform miracles, then there's no point even having this discussion, because that's a blanket answer that you'll use to answer everything, and it doesn't even come with one speck of real proof. example: if 20,000 people who are at a stadium watching a ball game see an object travelling at high speeds across the sky that doesn't look like a plane and claim that it's a UFO, does that make it so? because i read that "X" amount of people witnessed jesus perform a miracle - does that make it undeniably true? NO

Answer 2

I'm sorry to tell you this, Jade, but you're probably not a Christian if you don't believe that God created all of the living organisms today. Evolution is not true, and no one can give me any proof that it is. As for the Bible, there is nothing that proves it false. Any thing anyone may say that would prove it false can be easily discredited by a Biblical scholar. And by the way, justsome, my uncle drank a can of gasoline when he was a boy and miraculously survived. And also, Jade, Adam and Eve had more children than just Cain and Abel.

Answer 3

1 Kings, chapter 7, verse 23:
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

It should have been 31 cubits plus a couple of fingers; 3.1417 . . ., or pi.

Just because a fact or two is wrong or some parts are allegory doesn't mean the Bible is worthless. Very few scientists will say is is fiction. They just don't believe it literally. It is still a great book.

Answer 4

Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Go ahead and drink the anti-freeze. Jesus won't let you die.

Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

How did Jesus achieve escape velocity?

Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

It's a shame they never made the connection between water and....soap. If Jesus had taught personal hygiene, he would have saved more people.

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Giants? The Bible has Giants? Lol. It also has zombies and tons of other nonsense.

Answer 5

Hi Argument

I would like to answer you, even though I am a Christian I still listen to the arguments of Scientists and 90% of the time they make incredible sense. So incredible that I some times have to question my own faith.

The most scientific evidence that distinctly discredits the Bible
in my mind, is evolution.

I personally don't believe in the Adam and Eve story at all.

It is physically impossible for only two people to have populated the entire world especially if they had two sons named Cain and Able, Cain who killed Able. What did Cain have sex with his mother?

Not to mention the multitude of races that we have.

I know you will say to me that "but scientists have not found the missing link"

They have found the missing link,only I wont tell you what it is because you will say that I am being racist, and I don't want that label.

Even if I were to tell you, you still would not believe me.

Answer 6

None. The age of the Earth and the fossil record (corroborated by genetic homology) show that Genesis 1 is allegory. Geology shows no evidence for a universal flood around 4,400BC. There is some evidence of cataclysmic local floods in the Middle East around 8,000BC, the end of the recent great ice age.

Answer 7

A person acts the way they do because of the things that happen to them. Like if someone tazered you everytime yousnaped your fingers. You wouldn't snap your fingers anymore. "God" puts us where and when we are which directly effects te person we become. In other words "God" is directly responsible for wiether we go to heven or hell. Therefore he cannot be "fair" as it says he is in the bible.

It's as if I were to create a robot that went on a rampage and killed millions of people. I either did it on perpose, in which case I would not be good, or his programing was incorect, and "God" can't make mistakes.

Also, God permits the devil to do things to humans, like Job who had all those terrible things done to him by the devil while "God" just sat there. If I were to stand right next to a man who was burning to death and not helping him, don't you think that'd be a little immoral?

Answer 8

How about the fact that despite the fact that the Bible said about 27 centuries ago that Damascus would be a pile of rubble and never again be a city (Isaiah 17.1), Damascus still stands. I've mentioned this passage and NOT ONE CHRISTIAN has dealt with it. Why?

To rocky road: Do you have any documentation on that rather amazing claim?
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Answer 9

Well their is the way that we know for a fact biblical creation is complete wrong, we know that if noah's flood occurred there wouldn't be the genetic diversity for creatures to survive, we know that trumpets didn't cause the walls of Jerico to fall as it had no walls, we know jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem, we know that it is impossible for johan to survive in the acidic stomach of a wale. The whole thing is just scientifically and historically inaccurate thorough. Say no to jesus

Answer 10

This depends. If you take the bible literally, it's easy. The whole genesis story directly contradicts science. If you do not take it literally, the genesis story is not so bad, on the other hand.

On the whole, I think that the bible is written in ambiguous and mumbo-jumbo language, so that everyone can read his or her own interpretation into it. This discredits the bible.