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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction@Nov 7 2004, 08:28 PM
For relgious people who believe that the Bible is the direct word of God, I would tell them to think about what would have happened if God told early humans about mechansims of evolution, modern genetics, and cosmological theory. There is no way an ancient culture could have grasped and accurately written down that information. Obviously things are going to be described in a way that they could understand and with concepts that are easily transferrable among cultures and generations.
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Don't you think though that telling us one obscure little fact that we would be able to verify later on in our development would have been nice for god to say though?
Something like 'Mars is red'...a simple fact that would have been unknown to anyone then, but able to be verified now. Something like that would end all religious debate and wondering.
I think that the bible is figurative and vague, not only because that is all people could understand back then, but to shield it from skeptics pointing out factual errors.
Not trying to derail the thread here...just interesting points I think.
Plug: The book Contact is about this...great book. Bad movie.