(June 9, 2013 at 4:30 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(June 9, 2013 at 6:46 am)Maelstrom Wrote: If the writers were divinely inspired by God, the science should have been accurate.
If divulging scientific information was the point.
What purpose would divulging scientific fact serve?
Is was inspired by God, and related in a way understandable to it's recipients. It's not beyond our abilities to see that, and to understand the real message: purpose.
(June 9, 2013 at 6:49 am)Zen Badger Wrote: No, it is creationists that think it is a science book.
We know it is myth.
Then why continually force a scientific interpretation of it?
If you dismiss it on its primitive science, then you are reading it in exactly the same way as the creationists.
Newton got the building blocks of physics right, but also postulated alchemy for a while. So yes, it is ok to discard crap.
