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Really? Where are you getting that information?

Here’s what I was able to find on this topic.

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> However the dark ages was a cathollic age and later a protestant one

You actually are in error here as /u/luvintheride is trying to point out. The Middle Ages were not dark. They were only called Dark by the Renaissance people who did not want to give credit to those who came before, but wanted to claim that they were geniuses who got their stuff straight from ancient Greece.

The book "God's Philosophers" shows how the Middle ages were the laid foundation of science. It was crucial. https://www.amazon.ca/Gods-Philosophers-Medieval-Foundations-Science/dp/1848311508

You are right that after the Reformation things changed dramatically and the protestant countries advanced rapidly in so many ways.

> in short Jews have nothing to do with christian civilization or scxienbce

I don't think that "judeochristian" term is referring to people so much as the line of God's revelation.

As a Christian, I believe that I am connected in the faith at least to Abraham at least, and somewhat to Noah and even back to Adam.

> catholic europe did hardly more science then india or Asia

I strongly disagree. There were centuries of infrastructure, culture and craftsmanship that the Catholic Church built up including the printing press, Galileo, Universities. Much of it is taken for granted, including "discovery" of the Americas.

For an academic study of the subject, I recommend the following:

https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280

> this is a thread about ... Joshua

You're right, my mistake. Sorry. We're having two simultaneous discussions and I got mixed up about which was which.

> It means you need to interpret the text according to the grammar and historical context

OK, fine. So you read Joshua "according to the grammar and historical context" and conclude that it means something other than the plain meaning of the text. But if you do the same thing to Genesis you can likewise conclude that it too means something other than the plain meaning of the text. For example, Genesis 1 and 2 are clearly two different accounts written by two different authors. (The transition is actually at chapter 2 verse 4.) One refers to God as "Elohim" and the other refers to God as "YHWH". One says that animals were created before man, and the other says man was created before the animals. So the natural conclusion is that it's all just mythology. What's good for the Joshua goose is good for the Genesis gander. You can even do the same thing to the New Testament.

If you really want to learn about the justification for naturalism (which I very much doubt), read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Implications/dp/014027541X

especially chapter 7.

> it's quite ridiculous for an Engineer to believe in naturalism.

Right. That's why all the best engineering schools are based on the Bible.

> I recommend you try to look at the bigger picture.

How about this?

If you want to know more about the shroud, I think Mark Antonacci's Test the Shroud book is ok-ish. He's wrong about the carbon-dated sample not being from a repair site, and I think his cloth collapse model of image formation probably won't work. Most of his other claims are true as far as I know, but I need to dig deeper.

I think it’s like a “death by a thousand cuts” type of scenario. Here’s the paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Using-Numerical-Simulation-to-Test-the-Hypothesis-Brewer-Baumgardner/c9879bf3964aea279eedfee63e868b5e9166e0cf

This is probably an unhelpful comment... but have you watched Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus? The film lays out a lot of archeological evidence for Joseph, the Hebrews in Egypt, the Exodus, etc. that isn't really accepted by mainstream/secular Egyptologists because it challenges the current established orthodoxy on Egyptian dating, i.e., "all this evidence for the Exodus isn't in the time period we assume it should be in, therefore the Exodus never happened." Seemed like compelling evidence to me, but what do I know! :D Maybe that will help you somehow???

I think this is the physical book version:

The Evolution Handbook

So the book is a collection of young earth creationism arguments, and not a general education textbook on evolution or creationism. I think when you take it in as such it makes sense, even though not all arguments are equally as strong, as arguments usually aren't.

The theme of the book is that it just shoots you with arguments, regardless how strong the argument is - it just gives you all the arguments the author can think of it seems, so in that sense it for sure is an interesting book.

> Yeah, I'd like to read it

Cool! Let me know if/when you start, maybe a few of us here can read it together and discuss.

> I'm going to see if it's on audio so can listen at work

You can! Amazon has it on Audible. :)

> What interview are you referring to?

I linked it here.

>Is there a reason so few publications from the creationist perspective aren't formatted to audio?

The authors I know never told me of any reason. But it would be a good idea if it were in such format for the following reasons.

I recorded my biochem professors lectures and listened to them, but that was only after seeing them lecture with diagrams and reading the book. So when I heard the recording mention a molecular structure or complex, I tried to visualize it.

That said, there is a setting on kindle that will let it "read" text to you.

BUT, I'll give you hint of quality Creation Science written by an evolutionist. You can get the 4th edition for free and parts of the 5th edition for free.

Try the 5th edition SAMPLE from Amazon kindle which you can install on your PC:

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Biology-Fifth-Bruce-Alberts-ebook-dp-B07TJJTGTV/dp/B07TJJTGTV/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1575606701

Try a free sample. Just ignore all the gratuitious tributes to Evolution, and instead in your mind think to yourself "this is so improbable for random mutation to create, it can't evolve."

To learn this well, it might be good to have an audio of you reading it aloud, and then when you play it back and you hear yourself, think if you can state what connects to what and why when you hear terms.

FWIW, this is one of my cell biology texts for bio medical science. The first chapters are readable. You'll be marvellously empowered in reading even a couple chapters!

In fact, as I studied that book, I realized how many structure in the cell evolutionary biology fails to explain.

Please get back to me if you get through one or two chapters. It's free after all!

Among my usage of AnswersinGenesis.org and Creation.com, Genesis Apologetics is among the best recourses out there for clear cut Creation research presented to us laymen. They have an app full of their videos. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bf.appf59f9f If you do not want to install their app, I recommend just subscribing to their channel for new and informative videos. God bless!

I recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Messianic-Hope-Hebrew-Studies-Theology/dp/0805446540/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=is+the+hebrew+bible+messianic&qid=1597416621&sr=8-1

You're making the most elementary mistakes because you're unaware of what science is. You cannot say that science is justified by science, that doesn't follow. Scientific theories depend on inductive reasoning, this is extremely basic stuff. You can also develop a theory that appears to account for all the observations, but there is no guarantee that it could account for a distant past or a future observation. Since you're completely incorrect but still patronizing enough to "recommend" me a book, here's my recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Evolution-Logic-Behind-Science/dp/0521692741

I won't be engaging with you any further so take care.

I am keen to learn how your research progresses. I have always loved the Joseph narrative in Genesis, but I have never delved into the historical/archeological connections to Egypt.

Have you attempted to explore any archeological references to Potiphar or his wife (later referenced as Zulaika)? Also, finding Asenath would be a success. She was Joseph's Egyptian bride.

James Hoffmeier has a great scholarly book on the Hebrew Bible and Egypt. The book came out in 1999. Here is a link to Amazon, but it is available through Oxford online:

Israel in Egypt: Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition

Of course, we can play that game as well. I like Ashish Dalela's take on it: evolution is true (there is a progression of ecosystems and, within them, an orthogonal number of species), but what we know about logic, mathematics and physics does't really allow a mechanism such as random mutation AND natural selection to exist, beyond the fact that even if they existed the power of this mechanism has never been demonstrated at the level of the main claim -- macroevolution. So, yes, there is a progression and you can talk about change over time in the types of species but that is not a causal explanation, it is a description of fossil evidence.

Nye presenting the false dichotomy that one cannot believe Creation and be "scientifically literate":

<em>I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can—we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.</em>

This video makes me want to mail Nye a copy of <em>Surprised by Meaning</em>.

Some really good arguments for creation here.

Go buy a copy. It is a very good read.

Review: Why you should read Bavinck.