(May 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm)Polaris Wrote:(May 22, 2012 at 12:51 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: If your religious beliefs are interchangable to the point you can more or less mold them around the facts is there really any point in hanging onto them? At some point it has to be painfully obvious its being used to fill the gaps in our knowledge we don't yet have enough data to cover.
What happens when that gap becomes smaller yet again due to human advancement? Will the concept of God retreat further back into the gap? When is that gap too small to hide in?
At what point are we to admit religion is the equivilent of an aging band-aid on a gunshot wound it can't possibly treat? That band-aid is no more a substitute for proper medical treatment than faith is for research.
Why humor it?
Well see the only thing I change is the first part of Genesis. Most of the rest, I view either as history or legend history (aka it's based off history, but the details have become corrupted over the years).
If the whole foundation of why the world is related to god is not to be believed, then hardly would we credit any old time goat herder if he says he spoke to god or try to explain what he couldn't possibly understand in terms of god.
If foundation of bible is false, and its superstructure has no reason to be believed, why is it taken to have any unusual truth value?
