RE: Why the whole Adam and Eve Fall story makes no sense
March 25, 2016 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2016 at 3:19 pm by FebruaryOfReason.)
(March 24, 2016 at 2:00 am)robvalue Wrote: Question for all theists:
If you're presented with a random story, how do you go about determining whether or not it might be a real story? How would you teach a child to tell the difference?
OK, as the theists aren't biting, let me have a crack at this, Rob.
1. You give me the random story.
2. I check if it's in my book of made up bollox. If it's not, I say it's not true.
I ignore the fact that this method was not available to the people who compiled my book of made up bollox in the first place. Those people might have rejected your story as untrue, but they could not have used the criteria of "it's not in the Bibo/Kerrang/Bhang-a-gran-Rita/whatever." They used a bunch of criteria I don't know about, but I don't want to think about that*.
I also ignore the fact that the story might be in someone else's book of made up bollox. Because it is my book of made up bollox that is the only one that is right.
Do I get a prize for "most convincing answer so far"?
*When the Codex Sinaiticus - including the oldest extant complete copy of the new testament - was transcribed, the clergy required over ten thousand corrections to it. How did they know what to correct it to?
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/significance.aspx
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