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This is getting more and more like Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

What scientists are there who are Christian?

oh yeah, well we know about them they were all scared they must have been they lived in olden times.

aw, right, well they were all around 100 years ago.

aw right, well they were feeble-brained scientists, and one was a…[Read more]

They synoptic gospels are very sloppy in regard to dating.

John seems to be historically accurate – maybe. A lot of work has been done on that. No perfect accuracy is possible – but then again we don’t really know that much about Caligula, and he was Emperor..

Where did you get the dates of 36-39 AD from, for Pilate being in power.

He was…[Read more]

They synoprtic gospels are very sloppy in regard to dating.

John seems to be historically accurate.

Where did you get the dates of 36-39 AD from, for Pilate being in power.

He was Prefect of Judaea between 26 and 36 AD.

John Meier is writing the best biography of Jesus – A Marginal Jew. The first volume looks at all the historical dating and…[Read more]

My understanding is that the Catholic Church have not said that the Shroud is genuine or not.

They really do take a long time, and Gerry should offer his services to them to speed it all up.

The fact is, as the Catholic Church knows, that if the Shroud is a fake, it doesn’t affect Christianity one tiny bit.

If it’s true, then it’s interesting…[Read more]

I never mocked Hawkin’s appearance, rudeboy.

I would never mock the appearance of someone with a disability, much less a disability with which I’ve had personal acquaintance.

I’d be an unusual kind of monster to do that.

Read the post with more care and less bias- it’s on p.4 I think.

I’ll take this up soon in a post I’m finding difficult to…[Read more]

George Ellis, a long-time friend of Hawking.

Oh yeah, but apart from Ellis, what did the Romans do for us?

John C Polkinghorne.

oh yeah, but apart from Ellis and Polkinghore, what else did the Romans do for us?

and so on, and so on

Well I’ll be floored. Someone actually gives a serious answer to my question.

Ms Mooosey, you’re no more a pleb than I am. my guess is no more than some of the others here as well.

On the first point – his ideas will be used – yes, that’s undoubted, as you say. I’ve looked into it as much as a pleb can, and I’m not sure how useful they’ll be in…[Read more]

I don’t really have any thought about the shroud itself, Nem.

Everything waits on the Catholic Church to allow proper carbon testing. And the Catholic Church is like Treebeard, the Ent in Lord of the Rings. It takes centuries for them to move. That’s the time-realm in which they operate.

In the meantime, a lot of charlatans operate on…[Read more]

I am, Ms K.

I loved her songs when I was a teenager, along wiht other ditties like Grensleeves and Sumer is Icumen In

But she was a very old woman when she died.

Well, Morgan, I’m waiting for you to tell me what his lasating contribution to any branch of science was.

rudeboy has a worshipful view of Big Brains who know better than the rest of us, but he doesn’t seem to come out with that either.

Otherwise, it’s a circle. Clever people don’t believe in God. Yes they dooo. No they doooon’t and you’re…[Read more]

I wasn’t allowed to go to  Sunday School.

My mother managed to smuggle me in and they very kindly gave me a sweet to suck, but I wondered what in hell they were yammering on about and told mam that I didn’t want to go again.

Most of the child’s Jesus they taught everyone at school went over my head.

I do remember seeing Jesus as a pretty…[Read more]

er…..

in 1864?

Gerry and Ms Mooosey

Gerry, there was something in one of the points you made earlier which had the ring of truth. I felt bad about it, and I was going to apologise.

But it’s so wrapped up in the scattergun array of accusations that I’ll make my apology elsewhere.

Sorry for not being a scientist. I am trying to make serious points from the…[Read more]

Gerry and Ms Mooosey

Gerry, there was something in one of the points you made earlier which had the ring of truth. I felt bad about it, and I was going to apologise.

But it’s so wrapped up in the scattergun array of accusations that I’ll make my apology elsewhere.

Sorry for not being a scientist. I am trying to make serious points from the…[Read more]

Nemesis,

you’re too defensive against these characters.

They shout out their beliefs, often in crude personal abuse, but it disguises their actual ignorance.

In the discussion of the origins of the universe, he Big bang was described by Pope Pius as being a theory compatible with Christianity. He said that if the Steady State theory were right,…[Read more]

Yes, these are the points already made.

He was the first to establish his own branch of science in the popular imagination.

He also showed great courage in meeting his disability.

I don’t think he has made a contribution on the level of other cosmologists of the century – not just Einstein, but people like Edwin Hubble (Big Bang) or the teams…[Read more]

Typical of jc.

I would never mock anyone with motor neurone disease.

I’ve seen its effects on someone close to me; what she and he went through is beyond my imagining. I’ve stated this clearly.

I’m educated enough to have read through several books on cosmology, including Hawkin’s (unlike you, I get the name right).

But true, I’m not a…[Read more]

I didn’t mock Hawkins, Gerry. Quite the opposite

That myth was dispelled early in the thread.a while ago.

I’m happy to discuss religion in the light of Hawkins.

But making up fictitious books like The Book of Paul and then attacking them a fiction seems an odd way to go about things.

It seems that nobody has much to say about what Hawkins…[Read more]

How does she disagree with me?

It strikes me as precisely what I said, apart form the genius word.

But in this context she’s even right about him being a genius – he connected to the public.

Still waiting for an answer about Hawking rther than people making things up about Jesus and then attacking him.

p.s. I thought Paul saw the…[Read more]