(August 6, 2013 at 5:20 pm)Locke Wrote: I've also noticed there seem to be a lot of misunderstanding from the Atheists and the 'Christians' both on what the Bible even says, which is expected since most people who profess Christianity do so because they want it to be true, and never really study the Bible and for the Atheists.. well, why bother to read a book you don't believe?
While I have numerous disagreements with the Christians here on Bible interpretation, I don't get the impression that they do not read it or know what it says. Likewise I'm pretty sure that many atheists are, like myself, former Christians who read and studied the Bible. While confirmation bias is sure to play some part in how we perceive and understand the message of the Bible, it's also pretty clear that the book, to put it very mildly, is open to interpretation.
Feel free to ask questions, answer questions, and let us know what you believe and why, and hopefully we can do our part in return. But I think you'll find that most of us, atheist and theist alike, have a pretty good grasp of what the Bible contains. But only I know what any of it actually means.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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