(July 25, 2010 at 6:33 am)Darwinian Wrote: Also full of a total lack of scientific understanding and that lovely old chestnut of shoehorning vague scriptures from his silly book to fit scientific knowledge 'after' they has been discovered.
Couldn't have said it better myself. This is a normal practice for theists. They try to take maximum advantage of vague passages from their holy book to fit proven scientific discoveries in an attempt to claim that is how their god did it and how it had already been written in scripture before scientists came across it. The passages he reads could very well mean anything. He is just conveniently trying to make them sound like they fit the scientific discovery (and he doesn't do it very well at all). Although, at least I gotta give him credit for attempting to justify scientific discoveries rather than bluntly denying them (Christians claiming the Earth is less than 10,000 years old come to mind).
I also find it funny how at the same time they ignore the large amount of inconsistencies and claims which have been long disproved by science that can be found in the same book.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
