(October 11, 2012 at 11:46 pm)catfish Wrote:(October 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Perhaps you didn't, I assumed you did because most theists hold that postition, but evidently I was mistaken. How then, might I ask, would one distinguish between the true word of god corrupted by man, and a completely fabricated text?
To start with, admit the possibility of a god...
...and then note terrible scientific errors that reflect the knowledge of the people of the time and not that of an all-knowing god, and come to the most reasonable conclusion. (There are other reasons, but let's face it; the earth isn't flat)
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.