Atlantis

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by henk</i>
<br />THE BIBLICAL ATLANTIS<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">This Message Board is dedicated to Meta Science as it pertains to the science of astronomy. Your post appears to be off topic. What relevance do you see?

We especially discourage links to other sites except for reference purposes, which is what got your other post deleted. -|Tom|-

well, I think it is very relevant. To know what is on Mars, it is important to understand what happened in Genesis.

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who slept arose,
and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many. - Matthew 27:52

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by henk</i>
<br />well, I think it is very relevant. To know what is on Mars, it is important to understand what happened in Genesis.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">That is a non sequitur. Please explain what possible relevance religious writings of uncertain translation or meaning might have for science in general or Mars in particular? After all, science differentiates itself from religion by forming hypotheses, designing tests, and setting up protocols that can falsify wrong hypotheses. Religion attributes merit to faith, which is rather the antithesis of the science approach to truth.

At a minimum, I must insist you ditch the provocative biblical signature and refrain from making explicitly religious references when posting here. We do occasionally discuss religious topics here, including the existence of a God, but always from a science perspective (e.g., cosmology). Classical translations of Genesis have no more claim to scientific credibility than the alternate translations by Zecharia Sitchin, or those of other dissidents. Once faith is removed from the equation, there is little of substance that remains. -|Tom|-