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Biblical archeology gets a boost from AI

As with the Dead Sea Scrolls, when they did decipher it, using AI, they found it was the same Scriptural texts as elsewhere. Which reinforces the fact that ancient peoples were not in the habit of simply rewriting the Scriptures now and then according to taste.

Intelligent Design Lessons of History

Ancient city Ur was much bigger than thought

A declassified spyplane pic accidentally discovers this fact? So why be dogmatic about the far past? Wait till we have mapped the whole planet before splintering more lecterns.

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Can we distinguish human v. natural excavations?

Large geometric shapes are being discovered beneath the Amazon forest. Have the discoverers evaluated their origins correctly? If so, why? Is there any way to distinguish between artifacts caused by human and extraterrestrial agents? Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World By SIMON ROMERO January 14, 2012 RIO BRANCO, Brazil Read More…

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whistler Basically, because of reductive materialism (and/or methodological naturalism), the atheistic materialist (who believes Darwinian evolution to be true) is forced... – The Thought that Stops Thought
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bornagain77 “There are, according to Wiedersheim, no less than 180 vestigial structures in the human body, sufficient to make of a... – Man-ape chasm of differences
martin_r Alan Fox @114 Martin_r: That is why i am asking (for the 2nd time), if the above doesn’t apply to... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Sir Giles Querius: Note that at the time of the Scopes trial, over 100 “vestigial” organs were trotted out as proofs of... – Man-ape chasm of differences
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kairosfocus AF, 96, and why do you spend so much energy on objections and side tracks, if you imagine this is... – Man-ape chasm of differences
martin_r Alan Fox Evolutionary theory gives an explanation This theory is a bunch of nonsense. All the 'supporting evidence' is just... – Man-ape chasm of differences
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