RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2020 at 11:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your creationist friend is trying to negotiate with reality over the contents of an etiological myth. Why do snakes crawl on their belly (and why do we hate them) and why are men in charge of women and why is this life full of misery and why must we work the fields and why is childbirth so painful and dangerous and what should we..or even can we, do about such things?
These are the questions that genesis sought to answer. It was not recounting the details of creation as a news report from the beginning of the universe. Not even in it's own time. It's expected for a creationist to get a wide range of facts thoroughly and irredeemably wrong - but the thing that flies under the radar, is how completely they misread their own magic book. Not as in not knowing one line out of hundred, or this or that order from one chapter to the next - but fundamentally.
It isn't surprising, and it really isn't a valid criticism of the authors, that they managed to fuck it up. They had no way of knowing better, and weren't interested in expounding upon those things modern day creationists, who can and should and often enough do know better tie their scrotums into knots over, today.
These are the questions that genesis sought to answer. It was not recounting the details of creation as a news report from the beginning of the universe. Not even in it's own time. It's expected for a creationist to get a wide range of facts thoroughly and irredeemably wrong - but the thing that flies under the radar, is how completely they misread their own magic book. Not as in not knowing one line out of hundred, or this or that order from one chapter to the next - but fundamentally.
It isn't surprising, and it really isn't a valid criticism of the authors, that they managed to fuck it up. They had no way of knowing better, and weren't interested in expounding upon those things modern day creationists, who can and should and often enough do know better tie their scrotums into knots over, today.
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