Re: creation science vs. evolution
Commander Mcbragg heres something I found that you may find interesting.This is some reasons we can believe the Bible is still reliable and that the translations are really right on.<br /><br />the QUANTITY OF MANUSCRIPTS - <br /><br />To date, and unparalleled in ancient literature there are more than 5,000 Greek New Testament manuscripts, about 8,000 Latin manuscripts and another 1,000 manuscripts in various other languages. Coupled with this there are tens of thousands of citations of New Testament passages by the early church fathers. Now contrasting that the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Caesar range from 1 to 20! With this vast number of remaining copies from earlier centuries, we can check them against each other to see if any grave errors of transmission have occurred. The answer of course is none! Secondly there is, <br /><br />(2) THE QUALITY OF MANUSCRIPTS -<br /><br /> You see, the scribes of both the Old and New Testaments were meticulously careful in copying, to avoid the slightest error. When there work was done, the number of letters, words, and lines were counted. If a single mistake was found, the entire transmission document was destroyed and the scribe started over. This reliability, friend, gives us confidence that our Bible today is an accurate representation of the original writings of the Bible. As a result of this matchless care, when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947, scholars found an original copy of the Old Testament dated about 150 years before Christ. Now they could compare today's bible with a copy older than anything ever found. What was the result? Well, for every 10,000 words, 9,999 of today's reliable translations were an accurate representation of the original! To sum it up, even the New Testament can now be regarded as 99.5% pure and the remaining question is only in areas of non-doctrinal, and inconsequential matters.