(May 5, 2015 at 10:03 pm)Polaris Wrote: Don't expect theists to fit a stereotype you have encountered. As a theist myself, I have only ever met one person who told me the Earth was 6,000 years old and wouldn't have known anything about Creationism had it not been for atheists beating straw men.
Think of the theist as just like you with a different viewpoint. You both like hot dogs, but you may like catsup and they like mustard.
Who is saying theists believe the same thing? No one here is doing that. Actually it is precisely the fact that even within the same religions no one can agree on the "interpretations" of the same books, would or should indicate that those books contain no insight to the nature of reality or our species behaviors. The only thing those books reflect are the beliefs and social norms of the people who lived in the time they were written.
There still are people who believe the sun revolves around the earth. There are still people who deny evolution. If you are going to argue sample rate then don't ignore it yourself. I have been at this 14 years and there are stupid people in religion that dwell on fairy tales and superstition and literally believe the fantastic claims in the bible. The two most important stories, the birth and death of the Jesus character alone are negated by modern biological science. It takes TWO sets of DNA to make a baby, and humans do not survive death.
