If [The Bible] isn't evidence, then your science books aren't evidence either.
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The science books aren't the evidence, it's merely the description of the evidence.
The Bible has only itself, there is nothing behind it. If that is evidence, then Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is the evidence of Nifflers.
For the bible, substitute Harry Potter, a Betty Crocker cookbook, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds, or The Poets and Poetry of Linlithgowshire, and your statement makes just as much sense.
"Two people say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong."
This is their bullshit 'same-siderism' that their blind faith is as valid as authoritative voices of any kind. What did Hitch say about that shit? See first response.
“If [The Bible] isn't evidence,”
Historians don’t accept documents as evidence if we don’t know who wrote them, when, or for what purpose.
Too many books in the Bible are described as ‘traditionally held to be written by,’ but we don’t really know the authors. Matthew doesn’t say ‘This is the gospel written by me, Matthew,’ for example.
Also, Moses is held to have written the first five books, but then he described his own funeral.
“then your science books aren't evidence either.”
They’re not. No one says ‘Evolution is true because it’s in THIS BOOK!’ However the actual evidence is described in the textbook. it’s a subtle difference but that may be over your pointed head.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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