...which are over 2000 years old, have been translated from an entirely different language (inconsistently), and, in general, are not considered reliable historical sources. There are far more effective ways of getting a message across.
Thats such a beatable statement i'm amazed you actually put it forward.
You recognize and validate non-scientific, unprovable, UNPROVED-scribbles of darwin and the fact that he in his theoretical high, conjoined human ancestry with apes , and you have serious doubts regarding scriptures which are confirmed , were confirmed, and will keep on finding absolute confirmation till the end of times, I can bet you on that one if nothing else. What if science PROVES in the coming future that man did not evolve from apes?
The avoidance towards working for that proof really seems intentional now , because science could easily prove that, but its not going to, as it wont go down well for those who run the science show in only those instances where they are getting something out of it, and for those who run their Govts on THEIR 'self serving principles', and hence, 'religion MUST not take over the world, in any case, or it compromises their firm grip over the resources of the world!'.:devil:
Its true that most scriptures have been translated from their original languages, and some (do not even retain their original names today owing to human corruption) giving doubts to their originality, but that loss of 'some of the scripture's credibility', points
strongly towards the 'Final word of God ' The Quran which stands unchanged, unfazed, and un-corrupted.
( But why would i buy another egg when the rest of them turned out rotten, stop eating eggs will you? great logic.)
It is ONLY the detail study of ALL scriptures which CLARIFY those doubts. But we will only stick to the detail study of science and waste our time whinning about lack of evidence to this or that, only few take the challenge sincerely and few want to go ahead with the truth.
You have to be an ardent examiner of the scriptures to be even able to identify whats wrong and where, you have to educate yourself thoroughly and it takes many to obtain that kind of knowledge, with a lot of patience, preserverence and faith.
It is scriptural science, it has a history of thousands of years, and is not comparable to a couple of 'hundreds of years' of study of scientific methods which still need to grow to give out any clues or evidences to match the wisdom of the scriptures, which it never is even going to come close to.
That said, God made it just so easy to understand and saved humans the trouble of going back ages to verify something on their own, He only asked humans to read the word of God with an open mind, and truth will reveal itself.
Just because the technology today has digital imagery devices to capture images, does not mean men did not exist before , lacked knowledge and all of them lived in caves. The Pyramids of Egypt ,(several other ancient civilizations, romans& persians) and the tall mountains engraved in a whole city in Mecca shout aloud about the presence of skilled civilizations with excellent designs of cities and immense resources to put that kind of effort across, even today its a wonder how such huge cities got built that way.
Do you really think all men of the past were some fools who never acquired any knowledge and lacked intelligence to cope with their climates? And they believed the Books from God as exactly that , because they lacked proof against them? How lame and how foolishly arrogant of one's superiority complex of intelligence.
What do you think is an effective way of giving a message across to people who will be born a thousands years later? And suppose there was a huge flood to drown all technology, earthquakes to destroy man made structures, nuclear bombs to destroy almost everything, and the space satellites destroyed too. Device a plausible way of conserving that message and make it damage -fool-proof.
