(March 21, 2013 at 1:24 am)jstrodel Wrote: What if God simply wanted to use simple imagery to communicate a message that would not easily fit in a thousand pages or so? What use to most people have for a detailed origin of the universe, which eludes the modern mind, which would take libraries and libraries and libraries full of books to be able to establish?
Oh, that God of yours. He has the ability to create a universe but he's just completely lost when it comes to communication. He's the ultimate autistic.
Quote:Can you offer a single argument that proves why God should prefer this method of libraries full of scientific literature to communicate God's nature and the role God had in history over a simple, memorizable perhaps to some degree an abstraction of a complex series of events that really have next to no role in most of the people's lives.
Can you offer me a single reason why God should prefer to give people an account which is misleading and of no real value to understanding the universe? If it has no value to understanding the universe, what was the point of the Genesis story even being in the Bible? Why would anyone need to know any account except an accurate account?
Quote:Put it in formal logic (self evident propositions + presuppositions -> conclusion ) . I want to see what sort of presupposition about God's nature would be required to sustain a view of the world that makes the Bible useless if it does not give people more advanced and detailed knowledge of the universe in the ancient world, including knowledge that would potentially give people the ability to make nuclear weapons.
Prove the existence of God using formal logic and I'll use the same method to demonstrate his intentions. Until then, don't ask me to do something you can't do.
