(December 5, 2008 at 10:44 pm)Daystar Wrote: I am going to assume that the reason you and other atheists here seem to have no capacity for logical thought in your defense as youth and inexperience rather than having anything to do with being brainwashed by monkies in suits.Actually, I have spoken with you long enough to know that you feel very strongly about your beliefs about the interpretation of the Bible, but that doesn't make you any more right that the millions of other believers who interpret it differently. I could rant and rave my opinion of the interpretation of certain words and phrases of several books, but it wouldn't make me right.
You have spoken with me enough to know my skill as a Bible scholar and also as SCIENTIFICALLY RETARDED!?
Science is not about one person spewing their beliefs and interpretations of data, it is about the entire community checking and rechecking the claims. So far you are the only person on these forums to have claimed certain things about biblical interpretation. Other believers have come along and interpreted it differently (for example, you don't believe in a hell of damnation, whilst some theists on this forum do). What makes you right and them wrong? Where is your data? Where is the peer-reviewed analysis of your claims?
At one point I found that the hebrew word for the Earth's shape translated to "flat" or "circle", and you retorted with a claim that some book you had disagreed. I don't have that book however, and there was no reference online to the translation as a "sphere" like you claimed. At the end of the day, you are asking me to have complete trust in everything that comes out of your mouth, and I can't bring myself to do that; especially on the internet.
