Sword of Christ Wrote:...and the Bible is excruciatingly clear on this point.
I'm no biblical scholar and have only read a tiny fraction of the bible, but if there's one thing I can ascertain from the various scripture debates I have witnessed, it is that the bible is not "excruciatingly clear" on anything.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell