can you explain penn and teller prove of how the bible is false?

Question

explain the some of the facts they show as prove of how the bible is false

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RV46fsmx6E

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Answer 1

thanks for posting this video.. i am watching it right now....

that water is SO dirty. lol.

actual footage! lol..

very interesting about this "other messiah" Apollonius (sp?).

"a plague of messiahs"! lol that is SO funny! lol.. wow this video is great.. man i need to get cable, lol.

boy those people in favor of the 10 commandments staying were so CRAZY looking! man.... thats just sad.


i loved this video all the way up to the last statement... i dont think that just because you dont believe in the bible doesnt mean you should abandon the idea of a god.
the bible is just one group's idea about god... there are many more possibilities (im not just talking about religions) out there.

Answer 2

Facts nothing. Starting with Genesis: there are not two different accounts. In chapter 2 it says: "When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plants were in place...Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrills the breath of life and man became a living being." so clearly the "second account" is really just going back.
Noahs ark:
There is, whether anyone likes to agnowledge it or not, significant evidence for a worldwide flood. Look at the fossil and coal layers worldwide, which suggest very strongly of a sudden worldwide flood. As for how Noah built a boat that could hold all those animals- (there where significantly less mind you- there are many types of animals who have one common ancestor; dogs fo example. ) I bet he could do it in a hundred years! I mean, the guy lived to be 950, and it doesn't say that God said "OK, build an ark, cuz' I'm sending a flood in two months."

Exodus: there is no way that the israelites would have crossed at the sea of reeds, as (look on a biblical map) it would have taken them straight into another part of egypt. Rather, the Bible says that the israelites crossed at yham suhf, sea of land's end. However, many newer translations of the Bible have changed it to sea of reeds, for there was no crossing site found untill just recently. A site has been found though, in the jackson reef area, where there is a place where the land swoops up out of the sea to where it is only five feet below the surface at high tide, making a roadway that goes all the way across.
The New Testament: There may have been other "messiahs", but look at the prophesys, written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus. Jesus is the real thing.
As for that other guy, ol' what's his name, doesn't it seem strange that his story is an exact copy of the story of Jesus? I can just see one of that guy's followers, after hearing the gospel story, saying "yeah, well, my guy can do that too!"

Wake up.

Answer 3

I've watched that one before. It's not bad, but actually, it's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the facts that disproved the bible. I'm surprised they didn't go a little bit farther than they did.

I also thought the segment where they say the Jews never wandered in the desert and such was unnecessary. Whether that story was actually false or not is beside the point, in my opinion. The bible as a historical record can be debated till we're blue in the face, but that doesn't address the real issue - that the bible claims to hold commandments from a god.

That is the only part that actually concerns anyone.

Answer 4

If you believe that garbage.You'll believe anything.So what your saying is,you'll believe their opinion without making up your own mind?That's rich!Are there no free thinkers in the world anymore?Penn and Teller stinks anyway.The guy talking after the introduction is doing what is called elephant hurling.He's talking out his backside.Let me give you a link.There is plenty to read.I pray you are not too indoctrinated to read what I have offered.Have a splendid evening.You know what they say about TV and video.Garbage in,garbage out.

Answer 5

Penn Gillette, is a joke....Maybe if he didn't swear every 5 seconds, I could of watched the whole video....why does he have to swear while trying to prove his point...I have never liked this guy, mostly because he is the most arrogant person I know of....what he thinks is right, everyone should agree...well forget it...he will never be able to prove anything like this to me...he has set out to make a mockery of the Bible, and all he has done is prove what kind of person he really is...anyone who believes this, is just like him.

Answer 6

I'm with P&T 100% on this one... I have disagreed with them on a few issues (circumcision being one of them), but they are right on target here.

There is NO PROOF that the bible is a document of the divine. It is a document of faith and the people who wrote it here describing their faith in a being they couldn't see. It is filled with inaccuracies as we know them now after years of scientific research has proven many of the stories to be false.

Why didn't they eat certain types of animals? Not because god didn't want them to eat that animal (as they believed) but because the animals weren't prepared correctly and the contaminated meat killed them. We KNOW that now... they didn't know it then and they had to come up with a reason why poeple would die when eating certain animals.

Answer 7

I really didn't need Penn and Teller to tell me that, I'd already figured it out for myself.

Still, they do a good job of it.

Answer 8

I watch all of their shows. The series is really good.

Answer 9

Their Bullsh*t series is excellent

Answer 10

They'd prove themselves false if it would make them a buck.