(February 9, 2010 at 11:25 am)chatpilot Wrote: rjh4 said: "I am not coming from a biologists point of view but am looking at it from a Biblical point of view".
The reason the bible in my opinion is an intellectually unsafe starting position is simply because it is not based on known fact, but rather so called divine revelation. If I was to accept the bible as the word of god as you do I would have to accept every other so called holy script making the same claims of divine origin. In my opinion faith based on someone elses claimed revelations is not a valid starting point for any position. This is especially true if the so called revelations have been proven erroneous on those things we consider fact such as astronomy, and certain scientific principles that can't be disputed etc. Not to mention the fact that an atheist does not see the bible as you do, it is not a revelation but at least in my view a collection of myths and history mixed with fiction.
CP, fair enough (I certainly know this from our other conversations). I would be interested in hearing what your "intellectually safe starting position" is though.