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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
A team of workers at Art Fraud Insights, LLC, has found that all of the Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) fragments housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. are fake. They have published their findings on their company website.
The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of scrolls found in the Qumran Caves near the shore of the Dead Sea. They were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1946. Since that time, the scrolls have been identified as ancient Jewish manuscripts created over the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. They are housed in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum.
[...] the team [at Art Fraud Insights, LLC] [...] found that the material makeup of the collection did not match that of the original DSS fragments—they appeared to be ancient leather rather than parchment. More importantly, they had found that modern ink had been used to print words on the old material fragments—it had pooled on the old dried leather. The group also found evidence of clay mineral dust similar to that found in the Qumran Caves that had been applied after the inking had been done—evidence of an attempt to cover up the fake materials below. The final verdict: the fragments were not only fake, but had been created for the purpose of deception.
It is still not known who went to such great lengths to create the fake DSS fragments.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by dltaylor on Thursday March 19 2020, @12:34AM (4 children)
Once an omnipotent, omniscient being is proposed, nothing is ever again provable. 1 + 1 = 2 (even for large values of 1), unless that being decides, this time, for it to be 3.
This has always been the "get out of jail free" card. The dinosaurs died in the Flood, and the fossilization, earth layering, radionuclide dating, etc. were either placed by "God" to force us to have faith, rather than reason, or by the Adversary, to confuse us (permitted to do so why? is never answered "God works in mysterious ways.").
(Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday March 19 2020, @01:02AM
Unfortunately, many people are very much confused by such "teachings" many religions put forth. Sometimes folks just have to know, even if they can't. The unknown is too scary...
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:20AM (1 child)
God always wins:
He does something good, "Praise God!"
He does something shitty, "God works in mysterious ways"
He can't fecking lose!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:48AM
Elon Musk is God! :P
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:46PM
Way to misrepresent the issue.
You are telling something like: if i claim an admin touched the machine @ 2PM, no logs can prove me wrong as asmin can fake em.
The real issue is different, the real issue is like:
"if the creation needs a creator, then who/what created god?"
parsing warning @ who/what, concept is undefined
dependency error @ created, "create" concept depends on "time" concept, "time" concept by definition not present in the domain of "god":
suggested action:
1- define time2 as a concept in the supernatural domain of the supernatural and explicitly postulate it
2- STFU about proofs in the domain of the supernatural
I really talked about this a lot, so feel free to google my comments or whatever. Suffice it to say, every time you talk about the supernatural in the context outside belief, you are committing a blatant mistake.
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