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Is Genesis History?

BoogieWoogieWookie

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Just learned that this movie, IS GENESIS HISTORY? has been released on DVD. I did a google search for the movie and was surprised to find such a small number of negative reviews and posts. I have not seen it, but it appears to be totally young earth creationist propaganda.

The few negative reviews and comments that I have seen are mostly of the name-calling variety with little or no actual rebuttal.

The movie can be downloaded here.
 
To a limited extent, the Genesis story being a myth does have at least a few historical elements.

However, since the Genesis story is a myth, then it also has a great many non-historical elements.
 
BoogieWoogieWookie said:
Just learned that this movie, IS GENESIS HISTORY? has been released on DVD. I did a google search for the movie and was surprised to find such a small number of negative reviews and posts. I have not seen it, but it appears to be totally young earth creationist propaganda.

The few negative reviews and comments that I have seen are mostly of the name-calling variety with little or no actual rebuttal.

The movie can be downloaded here.
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I tend to avoid movies with silly questions as titles.

It's on Netflix as well.

Some of the reviews there are quite good responses. The only positive review I saw started with the 'fact' that the bible is a historically accurate book.
 
PZ Myers gave an interesting talk to our Seattle Skeptic's group years ago. He took out a Bible and tore out the first page. That was it, that was all the history of the Earth that is contained in the Bible, one page.

It was quite dramatic.
 
One could read the title as a clever, hipster slang wording, with the word "history" meant to mean out of date, no longer applicable, etc. But I gather that is not the intent of the film's producers. Too bad.
 
BoogieWoogieWookie said:
Just learned that this movie, IS GENESIS HISTORY? has been released on DVD. I did a google search for the movie and was surprised to find such a small number of negative reviews and posts. I have not seen it, but it appears to be totally young earth creationist propaganda.

The few negative reviews and comments that I have seen are mostly of the name-calling variety with little or no actual rebuttal.

The movie can be downloaded here.
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It's not science either.
 
Spindrift said:
The only positive review I saw started with the 'fact' that the bible is a historically accurate book.
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Oh dear... The review proceeded based on a false premise.

The idea that the book of Genesis is some kind of accurate historical account is sheer bollocks. Genesis is pure fiction, conceived by itinerant goat herders to account for stuff they had no ability to understand.

The works of Immanuel Velikovsky probably contain more historical truths than Genesis
 
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I watched it on Netflix.

It basically went this way,
"Science can't explain this..."
or
"Not all scientists agree on this..."
or
"This (scientific principle) has been called into question"

Therefore...GOD and the Bible.
 
C_Felix said:
I watched it on Netflix.

It basically went this way,
"Science can't explain this..."
or
"Not all scientists agree on this..."
or
"This (scientific principle) has been called into question"

Therefore...GOD and the Bible.
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Sounds to me like the whole movie is based on the "God of the gaps" fallacy
 
C_Felix said:
I watched it on Netflix.
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Wow. I don't know if I would have the patience.

C_Felix said:
It basically went this way,
"Science can't explain this..."
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Neither can theism. The difference is that science seeks an explanation. Religion claims that there is no need because goddidit

C_Felix said:
or
"Not all scientists agree on this..."
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Of course not. That is the point of science. Peer review and all that.

C_Felix said:
or
"This (scientific principle) has been called into question"
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Yet refusing to put their own beliefs to the same test.

C_Felix said:
Therefore...GOD and the Bible.
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And that is how the religious operate. Start with a conclusion.
 
abaddon said:
Wow. I don't know if I would have the patience.

Neither can theism. The difference is that science seeks an explanation. Religion claims that there is no need because goddidit

Of course not. That is the point of science. Peer review and all that.

Yet refusing to put their own beliefs to the same test.

And that is how the religious operate. Start with a conclusion.
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I kept waiting for the other side of the story.

It was/is very obvious the "host" went in with preconceived notions.
 
"Is Genesis history?"

If you need to ask the question, you're not going to understand the answer.
 
Peregrinus said:
"Is Genesis history?"

If you need to ask the question, you're not going to understand the answer.
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Of course Genesis was never the same after Peter Gabriel left but some might consider that a good thing. There's always hope for a reunion tour.
 
Spindrift said:
Of course Genesis was never the same after Peter Gabriel left but some might consider that a good thing. There's always hope for a reunion tour.
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Steve Hackett has been keeping the flame alive in recent years, though it sounds as though Satan is unlikely to be able to plays the drums.
 
BoogieWoogieWookie said:
Just learned that this movie, IS GENESIS HISTORY? has been released on DVD. I did a google search for the movie and was surprised to find such a small number of negative reviews and posts. I have not seen it, but it appears to be totally young earth creationist propaganda.

The few negative reviews and comments that I have seen are mostly of the name-calling variety with little or no actual rebuttal.

The movie can be downloaded here.
Click to expand...

Of course it is a myth, since most of the events depicted are physically impossible, and do not agree with what we know from other verified sources. We know that the earth did not evolve in 6 days. Serpents do not have the physical apparatus for speech, and knowledge cannot be gained simply by the ingestion of nutrients. And if Adam and Eve were the only people, and they had sons, where did the sons find mates? And the list goes on, and on..... Elementary, my dear Watson.....
 
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