Essay:SAB answered... Answered: Genesis

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

I decided to do a rebuttal of the only response to the entire Skeptic's Annotated Bible I could find, which was this:

http://www.berenddeboer.net/sab/index.html

I decided to crack open Genesis, and was kind of appalled, yet un-surprised at the same time, so I shall do a rebuttal, because I am bored.

I'm going to do everything by quotes, because the format breaks whenever I do a four-panel side-by-side.

King James Version
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The Rebuttal
I am fully aware of the rebuttals of the "two creation accounts". This is all because of nitpicking on past and present tense. I thought your God was outside time? Something I've personally noticed is that whenever a Christian doesn't like a certian doctrine, they'll put a date (usually a century) on it. The problem is we don't know what the very first churches taught, so they have no basis claim this.

As for the sources he gave for Moses not writing genesis (compiling it from older sources), he is right, he game a link to Creation Ministries International. Most of the sources he cites aren't reliable, and are creationist related.

His comment on the Gap Theory is related to the SAB linking to "Anti-Gap" sites, which aren't reliable either. (GMI, AiG, etc.)|reply=1}}

King James Version
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Berend de Boer
Correct. Let's hear it.

Steve Wells never implied this

True (Except for the deceived part), the facts were found to be different. However, the fact Scientists are correcting these mistakes show that they have an Open mind. I ask you: Is the Shroud of Turin a forgery or not?

King James Version
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Berend de Boer
Then why didn't God mention photons? I mean you claim the bible had all this Scientific foreknowledge. Why didn't he just mention this to prevent such confusion?

Translation: Science contradicts my beliefs so I'm gonna go to my favorite site so they can make something up about it.

So... Does that mean you recant this? The fact that it doesn't mention scientific names is what makes up most of this list.

Genesis 1:4-5
Nothing to refute here. nuff said

King James Version
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

The Rebuttal
As usual, the CMI article he cites has the usual ad hocery ,ad hominems, and word salad.