RE: Evolution/creation 2
August 13, 2012 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2012 at 10:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Thousands of years of any culture's history maintains that a whole host of mythical creatures exist, your Moses among them (but I bet you don't grant other cultures their magical beasties, do you?). Who said anything about my feelings? My feelings on the matter don't factor in at all.
If you have something to add to the body of knowledge then by all means share. If you could make a case for Moses, as it were, it would radically alter our body of knowledge on the subject. It wasn't exactly secular scholarship that led us to conclude that Moses didn't write the books attributed to him btw. There are those strange religious folks who don't feel the need to make an ass of themselves to maintain their faith.
Now, since you brought up my feelings on the matter, I'll tell you what I think-
Your faith probably doesn't "hang on this narrative", right? Why not ditch the untenable bits? You could always go the route of "No, Moses did not write those books, but people wrote about Moses - who was some manner of historical figure even though the actions attributed to him in the narrative did not occur as stated-." See, this is what I don't get. One would assume that people who were serious about their faith would want to know everything there is to know about their faith, would take research and scholarship about their faith very seriously. Insisting upon putting forward a parody of the narrative of faith does nothing to educate skeptics or atheists, and honestly, it doesn't do the faithful any favors either.
If you have something to add to the body of knowledge then by all means share. If you could make a case for Moses, as it were, it would radically alter our body of knowledge on the subject. It wasn't exactly secular scholarship that led us to conclude that Moses didn't write the books attributed to him btw. There are those strange religious folks who don't feel the need to make an ass of themselves to maintain their faith.
Now, since you brought up my feelings on the matter, I'll tell you what I think-
Your faith probably doesn't "hang on this narrative", right? Why not ditch the untenable bits? You could always go the route of "No, Moses did not write those books, but people wrote about Moses - who was some manner of historical figure even though the actions attributed to him in the narrative did not occur as stated-." See, this is what I don't get. One would assume that people who were serious about their faith would want to know everything there is to know about their faith, would take research and scholarship about their faith very seriously. Insisting upon putting forward a parody of the narrative of faith does nothing to educate skeptics or atheists, and honestly, it doesn't do the faithful any favors either.
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