The Great Flood

[Edwardo Piet]

It isn't irrelevant. Just because someone writes a book and claims God did it doesn't prove anything about their claim. If someone showed me evidence that God really did exist, I would believe. All anybody shows however is scripture from a book that has been proved scientifically and historically inaccurate.

It is irrelevant because a critical position for or against the Bible from someone who doesn't know anything about it has no value in making a proper decision. It is only opinion.

Lets say you asked me what I though of Dawson's latest book and I stood up on a soapbox and ranted about it for a half hour about how stupid it was and then in closing said: "If I had read it I am sure that would be the case. Total nonsense!" Are you going to say to yourself that guy sure knows what he is talking about - glad I didn't buy that book?

The fucking Flying Linguini Master or whatever the hell it is knows more than you blokes about the Bible or you would have said SOMETHING by now other than your opinion.

It isn't that I question your right to state your opinion, no matter how disinterested or uninformed you are about it or that you need to in some way explain your reasoning or position with me, but I gotta say - when you keep preaching on that soapbox someone is going to come along and tell you how it is. It is just a big waste of time to try and convert or convince someone of something they just don't even want to fairly evaluate. That is all I am saying.

Now I am just as ignorant about science as you are the Bible but at least I offer something more than baseless opinion and ignorance at my defense and I am more than willing to listen and learn from someone like all of you that know more than I do. I will question it and I may not accept it but at least I will have learned something.

I have seen surprisingly little of that here.

Have YOU read The God Delusion?
And also, if and when I read the whole of the bible, I doubt my own personal arguments directed to it would change your mind much. Rather than what I know of it through TGD.
At the moment I consider it a waste of time. Perhaps you would consider reading the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster a waste of time for much the same reasons?