A few years ago I ran across an amazing story ("
Ancient Sea Rise Tale Told Accurately For 10,000 Years") from
Scientific American, detailing how aboriginal Australians have preserved, via oral tradition, accurate information about geographical features that have been underwater since the end of the last Ice Age, circa 10,000 years ago. The article is fascinating for its own sake, but it also shows some of the limitations of the modern skeptical, ostensibly scientific (but more accurately “scientistic”) worldview. Not only that, it has some relevance to our Faith, and particularly to the question of the veracity of Scripture. In the post below I discuss how the amazing memories of Australia's oldest inhabitants inform our defense of the authenticity of the Gospels.
Let’s start with the scriptural question. A common line of attack by well-trained atheist enthusiasts is that the books of the New Testament weren’t even written down until 30-60 years after the death of Jesus: how can we expect them to be reliable? There are a number of good answers to this . . .
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