(April 3, 2013 at 10:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: "Anyone can see that God did not talk to a snake." The idea is that God literally talking to a snake is so ridiculous that it should prompt us to get below the surface of the text. For atheists, of course, that's a non-starter.
Is a talking to a snake really any more ridiculous than a Jew coming back from the dead? Why is one self-evidently ridiculous while the other isn't?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell