You're calculating from 1 AD? I’ve been putting the clock since the start of the Big Bang.
So I'm skipping a couple of pages here, but what you're asking seems to be:
Extremely difficult, I would think. I certainly wouldn't be able to do it. But that's why we have scientists and investigative journalists. If nothing else, the number of people you'd need to pull off such a trick as bringing the Titanic forward through time would make it almost inevitable that the truth would come out, eventually. I think all we'd have to do is wait for the professionals to do their work.
It does. Good thing I didn't say that.
A demonstration of power isn't evidence of divinity. You have to be predisposed to accept the existence of God as an explanation for natural or manufactured phenomena to think that XYZ is evidence of the existence of God. It's always circular reasoning. Even the title of this thread presupposes the existence of God as its premise. But, like @schlaufuchs, I think I have to admit that I don't really understand what this thread is about, or what question was being asked by the OP. I can only interrogate the premise.
Right. To a caveman showing them a flashlight might give them the idea we're gods when in fact we have it not more figured out than they do on a fundamental level (we may have ipads and live an extra decade of two but we're still subject to all the same limitations they are (aging, illness and death, being limited to our own subjective experience, etc)
I don't believe in magic and if I experienced "magic" I would try to find a naturalistic explanation
That'd be cool I guess.
For me, being consistent with any of the holy books would actually be evidence that it's some kind of trick.
I don't believe there is anything that can't be explained by science, only things that haven't been explained by science. Simultaneously, I'm accepting of the fact that some things haven't been explained yet, and I don't ascribe supernatural or divine causes to things that people haven't figured out yet. Lots of phenomena previously thought to be supernatural or divine have been shown to be natural, predictable, understandable, and even harnessable. Nobody today believes that a person struck by lightning has somehow offended Zeus. You mentioned The Angel of Death. We just had one, it was named COVID-19. I think Angels of Death have mostly been disease outbreaks. It's easy to see how pre-Enlightenment people would view a years-long drought, a mega-tsunami, or a massive earthquake as being the work of an Angel of Death, too, and we've seen every one of those things in recent years. The history of things that had once been ascribed to a divine being having since been explained by science is so long that, at this point, the idea of divine beings just seems implausible. If we've had it wrong 7,000 times in a row, why would we think, "okay, this time it's really god(s) at work"? Just how gullible do we need to be?
Science & technology is real magic.
D'oh. Ninja'd.
It's good that Zard hadn't said "867-5309 years ago."
If god performed the actions necessary to cause me to believe in god then yes I would believe in god…?? what on earth is this thread?
if you showed a given rectangle to have 4 equal sides would it be a square?
We though what Troy doesn't exist. 3 year ago we didn't know, what Africans also have parts of Neanderthals
