(June 15, 2011 at 5:19 pm)diffidus Wrote: Extending this notion a little.
Is there anybody out there who believes that Noah lived to the ripe old age of ~900 years.
Or that he and his kin (about 8 people) built a boat out of wood the size of an enormous football stadium.
Or that Noah then filled this with two of every species living on earth.
How could these 8 people feed such a multitude let alone clean up the waste.
To believe this story, again, makes me fearful - can it really be that faith causes such self delusion?
Anything can be believed by theists if they think god was involved. All reasoning goes out the window when attempting to critique their theist beliefs. And I don't think faith causes self-delusion, it is the delusion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
