(November 30, 2014 at 11:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I can't remember where I saw it...might have been Hitchens or Harris...but the observation has been made is that bible thumpers doing archaeology are like tourists who go to Paris with a map of London and then, when things don't work well insist that the map is right but the city is laid out wrong.
Actually, that was one of mine, in reference to creationists and kindred biblical literalists. I can now retire happy to be regarded as up there with the Horsemen.
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'