User talk:Rkgreiner

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 08:50, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Battle of Jericho
In archaeology old ideas are often overturned by new excavations, so stating that someone who died a century ago had certain ideas about the dating of a site is irrelevant. But the main point is that Wood has clearly not demonstrated that the Bible is correct - if he had, then you'd find ample statements by archaeologists who are not Creationists supporting his dating, rather than the disagreement that actually exists. Please understand that this is a mainstream encyclopedia that sees "Creation science" as a religious view, not a scientific one, and that anyone, Christian, Hindu, or whatever, whose religious beliefs force them to hold certain ideas as absolutely true is not a reliable source. An example is the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy which states that "science cannot override scriptural statements on creation and the flood". If you are an archaeologist and a biblical inerrantist, you simply are not going to be able to agree that the story about Jericho is false. That's not science or archaeology. Doug Weller talk 09:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)