1. The Bible (Christianity). According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica parts of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) were written as early as the 10th century B.C. with ‘final redaction and canonisation’ during the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. The New Testament was written during the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. This makes the Christian Bible approximately 3000 years (Old Testament) to 2000 years (New Testament) old.
2. New Testament Attestation. Writes dr. F.F. Bruce, the late Ryland’s Professor of Biblical Criticism & Exegesis at the University of Manchester:
“There is
no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good
textual attestation as the New Testament … ”The evidence for our New Testament
writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of
classical writers, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And
if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity
would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.” [The John Ankerberg
Show].
3. Comparing Science & Atheism. At first glance it is obvious that scientists (atheists & some theists alike) will invariably ascribe ‘millions & billions of years’ to the age of the Cosmos or e.g. the age of species (biological) on earth. For instance are the ages of galaxies like Andromeda and the Sombrero given as 10 billion years and 10-13 billion years respectively. Similarly is the oldest (emergence of) life forms on earth given as 4.41 billion yrs.
4. The Bitter Irony. So here we have a situation where scientists, i.e. a group who are strict sticklers to the ‘scientific method’ and ‘empiricism’, are studying heavenly bodies (astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology etc.) ‘billions of years’ old and often ‘million & billions’ of light-years away making not only them but also the very information (unverifiable, by the way) received at such distances ancient and probably obsolete. At the same time palaeontologists & geologists will study and draw conclusions from fossils and rock-formations allegedly ‘million of years’ old (also unverifiable) and expect us to believe everything they say.
Considering the fact that they build their theories and hypotheses on observations about the Cosmos (Cosmology) described by themselves as 'billions and millions of years old' and fossils (palaeontology) 'millions of years' old (and with all this 'evidence' unverifiable in every instance) they still have the audacity to label the Bible, a record that is only a few thousand years old, as too ancient to rely on and therefore obsolete.
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