(July 28, 2022 at 5:11 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(July 28, 2022 at 4:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Quran, just like Bible, claims that God created the universe in six days. Earth is created on the first day. Four days later, God creates the sun, moon, and stars.
And why do you consider this to be a mistake? The duration of a day in these verses isn't the one we're familiar with, it could be any arbitrary duration that only God knows, the theist can legitimately argue along these lines.
Why? Are you kidding me? I ask because I explained it in the second part of that post. What, you failed to read it?
Here, I'll paste it again
Quote:Indeed, using confirmation bias with arrogance, any creation myth can be "true".
Take an ancient Chinese myth which tells us that everything started in chaos. The universe was like a black egg (a black hole?). A god named Pan Gu, wielding an axe, breaks the egg and the heavens begin to expand. The fleas and lice on Pan Gu's body evolve into humankind.
And that is what you are doing with"days can mean millions of years" and similar. Maybe flees are single cells, black egg is a black hole, etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
