Did you ever feel dissatisfied by the quality of 'proof' from the FDS?

by bohm 21 Replies latest jw friends

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  BluesBrother

  Dissatisfied with the arguments of the WT ? Yes, sometimes I was , but it was not the evolution v creation. I recall conducting a group study when the book was first studied in the 80's. We all thought it was great and felt so enthused .

  The arguments that seemed weak to me were the ones that related to chronology ( a day for a year and all that) , the application of 2 Timothy 3 to the days we live in, and Matt 24 as well. When they changed the understanding of the "generation" I really could see that they were changing it to fit a need, not a new "flash of light"..

  I still remained faithful until near the end of the nineties, though. I am slow to react to things.......
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  JWoods

  Science inconsistency was always an issue with me. Some of the most damaging:

  The idea strongly expressed back in my JW days that the creative days were exactly 7,000 years each, thus making all creations on Earth something less than 49,000 years.

  The arguments presented in the evolution book - particularly the straw man of tearing down radio-carbon dating as if the fact that is only an age estimate somehow disproved the validity of ancient fossils. (which are far older than radio-carbon techniques can read anyway). Also the continuous ridicule of the Piltdown Man hoax - as if this somehow indicated that ALL fossils are hoaxes.

  The stubborn notion that a global literal flood had to have occurred some X thousand years BCE, when there are many proofs that this could not have happened. The idiocy that just this month-long flood caused all the geological features on earth instead of known geological processes. The completely laughable idea of the "water vapor canopy".

  The absolutely medieval idiocy that the human heart and kidneys contribute to conscious thought.

  The one-time reliance on quack medical practices, and the fairly recent hate they held for vaccinations (and disbelief in such disease as Rabies).

  Sure, some of this is gone now (sort of) - but it is still quite damaging to realize that they ever did teach such crap.