(August 12, 2013 at 8:26 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You're claiming to know as much as a god then Chicklet. I'm sorry to have underestimated you!
I don't have time now, but let me say briefly...
Take the creation story. Many Christians hold the ignorant position that it is literal, in the sense that they take the English translated words at face value adding their modern scientific understanding to it.
They have produced zero exegetical proofs of this interpretation, so it stands naked. The actual literal explanation, on the other hand, has thorough exegetical support, in studies detailing comparative religious and cultural practices, language and understanding of the time, to come up with a very different meaning.
The former pretty much sums up the OPs method.
So the sentences don't mean what they say, they say something different?
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
