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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why would ancient Semitic people living in the Levant have any reason to write about such things? How would they have even known about dinosaurs, geological ages, outer space, and the biochemical processes of reproduction and species propagation? One cannot "ignore" nor "deny" things that she or he lacks the capacity to know.
Your incredulity at their ignorance is just as off-putting and absurd as the bilblicist's insistence on the scientific veracity of the Old Testament. Raising questions that scripture never intended to address is the other side of a flat, literalistic, hermeneutical coin.
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I think that the standard theist that atheists run into are not of your persuasion TC. Clearly you and the group you run with have a far better understanding of the people and times during the supposed reign of JC. I admire that you own it and educate yourself, regardless of our positions.
I wish there was some way you could provide your understanding to the masses <unintended pun> so that all followers at least had an understanding of that era. That historicity is sorely lacking in the Christian faith, and I might add the Muslim faith as well, and that is why you are asked the direct questions by the many atheists on this board.
In daily life we do not get anything but the same old drivel when it comes to the dinosaurs/ark/walking on water/miracles/creating bread and wine/healing/born to a virgin/flying horses/splitting of the moon/crying palm trees/burning bush fables from the run of the mill faithful.