RE: The Evolution of Religion
December 3, 2012 at 12:52 pm
(December 3, 2012 at 12:32 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Similarities in texts of different religions mean that stories about god A have been adapted to fit god B.
Not necessarily. You need to show evidence of transmission. for that claim to be more than speculation or intuition. It could also be that A stories and B stories were seprately adapted from earlier C stories, or the similarities could be mere coincidence.
Quote:Biblical viewpoint, romans?.. I'm talking well before the romans were around. People already believed other deities before yahweh was ...... ad@pted.
The book of Romans in the Bible, specifically the first chapter.
Quote:Anyway, you then say that god gave the truth to Israel... isn't it much simpler, given all the similarities, to see this truth as arising from the "older traditions"?
I don't see how we could quantify which is simpler, and simplicity does not necessarily imply truth anyway.
Quote:You want to have your god present itself to human kind somewhere in the far past; humans then build a number of pantheons of gods and he eventually comes back to lay the truth on people again....
Yes. Similarities between other religious texts and OT texts make perfect sense in the Biblical paradigm.
Quote:I see naturalistic patterns. You see supernatural ones. I find my patterns more probable than yours.
Of course you do.
