(March 21, 2012 at 12:17 am)Rhythm Wrote: You can clearly believe whatever you wish about what the bible says (and every denomination has it's little ticks), nevertheless, you'll have to completely trash the entirety of genesis (similar situation with most if not all of the OT) to have some semblance of factual accuracy.
MWAS-Man Without Any Sense. (seems more appropriate). Again, there was no flood, end of.
I love the intellectual gymnastics that some Christians use in order to get the Darwinian account of evolution to fit with Genesis.
The scary thing is the Discovery Institute which is proposing the opposite. That all facts are to be truth checked against the bible. Anything that appears to contradict biblical claims would be thrown out. Now THAT'S some crazy stuff.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire