(June 24, 2015 at 4:30 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: The beginning of this galaxy sand everything in it. It was there best answer. There are very few things that old texts do not describe very well and that perhaps the Lord Never explained to any because it in not our place to know.
If they were inspired by god and yet left to make "best guesses" based on their backwards understanding of the time, then where exactly can we spot the inspiration? The Biblical origin story isn't the only one, and we have a few muslims who post here about how their holy book tells the real story... but only if you apply the same reasoning as you do above, and interpret their vague and ambiguous texts in a self-serving manner.
This constant flip-flopping between "inspired" and "fallible" men is an attempt to have your interpretational cake and eat it, too. Can you twist a few verses into something almost meaningful? Proof of divine inspiration! Does it conflict with these other verses, which makes the whole thing seem nonsensical? Proof of the fallibility of men! At some point all of this misdirection must seem ridiculous even to those who profess to believe it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould