(October 7, 2011 at 7:37 am)Zen Badger Wrote: What a steaming pile of pseudo-intellectual mental masturbation.
I also think part of it is to prepare themselves to shoehorn the bible into new circumstances such as alien life.
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