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Believing in creationism is a sin
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RE: Believing in creationism is a sin
The point, Endo, is that the bible is so poorly and ambiguously written that anyone can read into it whatever they want to see. You hit uopn the problem yourself when you mentioned things that the book doesn't say; it's left up to the reader to impose their own interpretation into the text, up to a maximum of whatever scientific knowledge is current at the time. For instance, the story talks of Yahweh creating the world and the heavens, but doesn't say anything about how it did this. At one time it was enough to chalk it up to magic and be done with it; now we know about Big Bang cosmology and quantum fluctuations etc, which all gets shoehorned into the story and becomes proof of biblical wisdom. Like all sleight of hand, it entertains the sceptic, fools the gullible and swells the coffers.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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Believing in creationism is a sin - by Nerd - March 13, 2013 at 8:14 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by festive1 - March 13, 2013 at 8:16 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Nerd - March 13, 2013 at 8:18 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Drich - March 13, 2013 at 9:46 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Whateverist - March 13, 2013 at 9:52 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Endo - March 25, 2013 at 10:36 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Nerd - March 13, 2013 at 8:51 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Napoléon - March 15, 2013 at 8:07 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Napoléon - March 16, 2013 at 1:55 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by ThomM - March 16, 2013 at 6:56 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by festive1 - March 13, 2013 at 8:21 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Nerd - March 13, 2013 at 8:33 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by festive1 - March 15, 2013 at 8:13 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by archangle - March 16, 2013 at 4:08 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 16, 2013 at 8:09 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Minimalist - March 13, 2013 at 9:07 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Justtristo - March 13, 2013 at 9:46 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Drich - March 14, 2013 at 1:26 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 15, 2013 at 5:04 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 8:18 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 16, 2013 at 8:03 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Brian37 - March 15, 2013 at 6:15 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Joel - March 15, 2013 at 8:31 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Napoléon - March 15, 2013 at 9:08 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 16, 2013 at 1:06 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 16, 2013 at 1:17 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 16, 2013 at 1:34 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 16, 2013 at 1:46 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Silver - March 16, 2013 at 1:37 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 16, 2013 at 1:44 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Napoléon - March 16, 2013 at 4:17 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Cyberman - March 16, 2013 at 8:53 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 17, 2013 at 4:02 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Silver - March 17, 2013 at 4:07 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 18, 2013 at 11:24 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 19, 2013 at 2:45 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 19, 2013 at 6:29 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 20, 2013 at 5:49 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 21, 2013 at 12:02 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Silver - March 21, 2013 at 12:10 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 21, 2013 at 12:20 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Silver - March 21, 2013 at 12:22 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 21, 2013 at 6:05 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Silver - March 21, 2013 at 6:41 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 21, 2013 at 12:26 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 21, 2013 at 6:55 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 22, 2013 at 6:37 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 22, 2013 at 8:20 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 19, 2013 at 5:45 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 19, 2013 at 5:53 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 19, 2013 at 6:34 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 20, 2013 at 3:30 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Godschild - March 21, 2013 at 12:14 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Silver - March 21, 2013 at 12:16 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 21, 2013 at 7:01 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Cyberman - March 19, 2013 at 7:29 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Justtristo - March 19, 2013 at 5:04 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Cyberman - March 17, 2013 at 8:51 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 16, 2013 at 9:31 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Cyberman - March 16, 2013 at 9:38 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 16, 2013 at 9:47 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 16, 2013 at 10:45 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Justtristo - March 16, 2013 at 11:22 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Cyberman - March 16, 2013 at 9:48 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 16, 2013 at 11:31 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Justtristo - March 17, 2013 at 6:34 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by KichigaiNeko - March 16, 2013 at 11:50 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Tonus - March 17, 2013 at 9:42 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 17, 2013 at 11:27 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Aractus - March 19, 2013 at 6:14 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 19, 2013 at 6:50 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Joel - March 19, 2013 at 6:53 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by ideologue08 - March 22, 2013 at 6:48 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 22, 2013 at 7:07 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by ideologue08 - March 22, 2013 at 7:16 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Esquilax - March 22, 2013 at 7:55 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Tonus - March 22, 2013 at 8:11 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by KichigaiNeko - March 22, 2013 at 8:12 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Joel - March 22, 2013 at 8:39 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by jstrodel - March 22, 2013 at 2:16 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Whateverist - March 22, 2013 at 2:22 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Nerd - March 22, 2013 at 11:28 pm
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by FragileTag - March 23, 2013 at 1:12 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by KichigaiNeko - March 25, 2013 at 10:37 am
RE: Believing in creationism is a sin - by Cyberman - March 25, 2013 at 2:56 pm

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