(October 16, 2018 at 11:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(October 16, 2018 at 6:43 pm)Belaqua Wrote: Genesis was not written by goat herders, and was written several centuries after the Bronze Age.
I know this is a standard insult, but nobody should believe it. Atheists like to use non-literal metaphors also.
No scholar believes that Genesis is the oldest literary document. That honor likely belongs to The Epic of Gilgamesh; however, the Sumerians had invented writing in the 4th-mellinium BCE, over 1,000 years prior to the Gilgamesh epic.
Yes, very much so.
This is why I think that we should try to be accurate in our sentences. If we say obviously false things -- like Genesis was written by Bronze Age goat herders -- we are ignoring facts.
We are supposed to be the ones who value truth.
