RE: Dad links son's suicide to 'The God Delusion'
December 4, 2008 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2008 at 4:30 pm by CoxRox.)
To be honest, I wasn't joking. I'm not sure where Psalm23 is heading and the question doesn't 'feel right'. I'm impatient to know where Psalm23 is going to go with this....
Lukec said: ''That's exactly what it looks like- making it fit (and leads to the point, what else are you "making fit"). But it doesn't make sense. At the time of the noachian flood in the bible which is (regardless of how old the earth is from the genesis creation story) somewhere within the realm of 6 thousand to 10 thousand years, people were already spread out over every continent except antarctica. Also, the three main waves of human migration were out of Africa... not the Middle East.'
Ok, good point.. I'll look into this.
Lukec said: 'I disagree, based on the amount of animals there actually are etc... imagine if Adam had actually named every kind? It would've taken forever. Also, you are only looking at genesis. A quick search in the Googlemachine yields this site. If you scroll down, there is an extensive list a contradictions in the bible, and keep in mind this is just the first site I pulled up. There are many many more.'
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I've had quick glances on sites like that before, and they usually misunderstand the background, or context. I will look into all the apparent discrepancies though, properly, once I've read up on evolution.
I should get an honorary degree at the end of all this studying and checking things. My friend puts in less hours for her distance learning course....
Lukec said: ''That's exactly what it looks like- making it fit (and leads to the point, what else are you "making fit"). But it doesn't make sense. At the time of the noachian flood in the bible which is (regardless of how old the earth is from the genesis creation story) somewhere within the realm of 6 thousand to 10 thousand years, people were already spread out over every continent except antarctica. Also, the three main waves of human migration were out of Africa... not the Middle East.'
Ok, good point.. I'll look into this.
(December 4, 2008 at 3:27 pm)CoxRox Wrote: This is the only 'inaccuracy': the bird one. The other so called contradictions: the lights appearing (the sun, moon etc were already created, but there light couldn't shine due to dense cloud) I can supply a more detailed list of the apparent discrepancies and their explanations if any one is interested. For a very simplistic account, it does pretty well I think.
Lukec said: 'I disagree, based on the amount of animals there actually are etc... imagine if Adam had actually named every kind? It would've taken forever. Also, you are only looking at genesis. A quick search in the Googlemachine yields this site. If you scroll down, there is an extensive list a contradictions in the bible, and keep in mind this is just the first site I pulled up. There are many many more.'
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I've had quick glances on sites like that before, and they usually misunderstand the background, or context. I will look into all the apparent discrepancies though, properly, once I've read up on evolution.
I should get an honorary degree at the end of all this studying and checking things. My friend puts in less hours for her distance learning course....
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
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