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Using Bible apologetics sites as information about things [View all]
is like quoting from a book by Erich von Däniken with regard to cosmology or archaeology.
Both will give you information to support your cockamamie ideas and satisfy your confirmation bias.
Both are advocating certain positions, and so are unreliable. Generally much of what they say is patent nonsense.
If you don't know who Erich von Däniken is, you have missed an exciting journey into wackadooism from the 1960s, wherein he explains how extraterrestrials did lots of stuff that is why things are as they are. Lots of illustrations and extensive explanations, too. He still has followers, although his popularity is much reduced these days.
Wackadooism is always changing and evolving. For some, it is a religious thing.
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But this apologetics site says there is no evidence that what I want to believe *didn't* happen.
trotsky
Apr 2019
#1
It's sad about von Dniken. We now know that ancient people could and did cross oceans
Nitram
Apr 2019
#3
As a child we had a photographic book of his Kon-Tiki expedition, and it captured my imagination.
Nitram
Apr 2019
#5
Ha! You're right. Now I remember who Von Daniken was. Chariots of the gods and all that crap.
Nitram
Apr 2019
#17
Hearing voices and hallucinations are generally associated with mental illness
Major Nikon
Apr 2019
#11
Most opinions are based on interpreting secondhand/acquired knowledge. That led
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#9
The neurosurgeon who wrote about his own near death experience explained how he knows his brain
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#20
From what I've read, the dying brain theory has been disproven. But to each, his own.
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#40
Luther said he was depressed at his inadequacy, but landed on Paul's grace statement.
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#19
But...would you accept a personal experience as evidence? Perhaps you might if you knew
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#39
You're right. No one can prove the existence of a different reality. What about the child
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#21
I could go to my kindle and list all the books I've read on the subject, but I don't think it's a
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#35
I was conveying the gist of one of hundreds of reports made of survival after physical death. I
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#33
Please see my reply to mineralman in which I give resources. Sorry that my post
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#36
You can refer to my reply to MineralMan. The researchable evidence has been done for you
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#37
Please see my reply above. Those resources won't contain that particular story;that was in a
Karadeniz
Apr 2019
#38