NinjaMonkeyPrime Goes Off a Tangent

The video we comment on is about a very specific topic, he is now totally outside it:

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NinjaMonkeyPrime

@NinjaMonkeyPrime

@hglundahl When observations of reality conflict with the mythology of scripture, an honest person would realize that the mythology wasn't intended to be taken literally. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand. Is Earth flat? Nope. Is it under a dome? Nope. Can snakes physically talk? Nope. Is there any evidence of a global flood? Nope. That's just a few examples where reality doesn't fit with a literal translation. That's why people who claim Earth is flat, or young, or the flood really happened are denying reality in favor of mythology that wasn't meant to be taken literally. That's dogma but worse because it borders on delusion. And let's not forget how it is extremely unchristian to imply that thousands of experts in various fields over centuries are incompetent or lying about science and human history.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@NinjaMonkeyPrime "an honest person would realize that the mythology wasn't intended to be taken literally."

That's not an honest person, but a dishonest person, failing to understand (in the pretended scenario, which has occurred about non-Christian religions) that the mythology was wrong.

"Is Earth flat?"

Doesn't say so.

"Is it under a dome?"

If you mean the Firmament, there are other literal interpretations than a solid dome.

"Can snakes physically talk?"

No beasts can, unless angelic beings are involved.

"Is there any evidence of a global flood?"

Plenty. Campi Flegrei eruptions, for one, that's where I get my carbon date for the Flood. Lava cooled with excess argon dating to millions of years in K-Ar, for another.

The Atlantic Ocean and the land masses pushed up around Baffin Bay look like the original rectangle of four corners was damaged Northward by some very strong force.

"That's just a few examples where reality doesn't fit with a literal translation."

Nothing, including four corners (Alaska, Cape Horn, Siberia, Tasmania) that indicates Flat Earth in a literal interpretation.

"That's dogma but worse because it borders on delusion."

Delusion is when you take yourself for sth you are not. Or someone else you are supposed to know well. When Francis Joseph visited a mental hospital, he saluted one man, presenting himself as "ich bin der Kaiser" and got the response "oh, I thought so too when I arrived" ...

What you are doing is Marxist reinterpretation of Delusion, adapted to persecuting religion.

"And let's not forget how it is extremely unchristian to imply that thousands of experts in various fields over centuries are incompetent or lying about science and human history."

Being wrong doesn't even mean being overall incompetent. Several paradigms have succeeded each other and each would say of previous (or if knowing them of succeeding) ones that it was wrong, because of a systematic blind spot.

You are very arbitrarily singling out the paradigm that right now happens to have favour ...

Now, that's extremely unchristian.

@NinjaMonkeyPrime "are incompetent or lying about science and human history."

Science, properly speaking, doesn't include "historical science".

Human history is known from record, to which the Bible at least purports to belong in a majority of its chapters, and not from science.

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NinjaMonkeyPrime

@hglundahl All the evidence of human history is a problem for YEC, not just the Paleolithic. Strange how you mentioned lava during the flood as the physics required to adjust the plates would have vaporized the entire planet several times over. But this obviously ignores the evidence that there wasn't a global flood.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@NinjaMonkeyPrime Thank you, I skip this one, you want to destroy the discussion of specifics to your over general heckling of my position.

Get off my back!

This is not the first time.