The Bible

[Tiberius]

the rationality of the Bible is as old as IT is. Nutcases came and went across the centuries. It's laughable you quote them here.

The "rationality" of the Bible is irrelevant here. Rationality is derived from those who interpret it, and in actual fact you seem to understand how irrational the Bible is (i.e. Genesis story / myth) so I'm confused as to why you actually said it was rational. The point, which you seem to be skipping around, is that the people who wrote the Bible did so because they were writing an explanation of the world, how it got there, etc based on the only method they had at the time: stories passed down through the generations.

Above you broke your own rules, in the same way that I did. You need to raise your own warning level to 50%.

How many times did we have to explain this to you last time? Swearing at someone isn't grounds for a ban or a warning. Repeatedly doing so every post might count as grounds for disruption, but everyone is allowed to swear here.

How pathetic is that. You really do push credulity sometimes. Try and retain some balance please. chatpilot tried 3 times yesterday to belittle my point by simply saying that I didn't know my subject, only using derogatory terms. No proofs were offered. Unlike you I don't base my thoughts on well worn rhetoric. I also don't seek to bludgeon my opinions onto other people as you do.

Lol, "derogatory terms". You do make me laugh sometimes fr0d0. I've just re-read the posts from yesterday and I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Do you actually know what a derogatory term is?

This is chatpilot's assertion that we should take his opinion seriously because he has many years of experience. I just happen to have more years experience than he quoted. Am I not entitled to mention that then? I also qualified that by saying that it didn't really matter. I didn't use that to refute his points, just defend against the very thing you seem to be accusing me of.

You are well within your rights to say you have more years of experience, but you offer no proof. That is my problem with your assertion. I could easily walk into a conversation and say "Well I have more experience than you so my opinion is better, etc" but it wouldn't be a very good argument if it weren't true now would it. Even if it were true, it doesn't have much bearing on the conversation since a person may have read completely different books on the subject.