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Anyone know creationists that believe this?
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RE: Anyone know creationists that believe this?
(May 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm)Polaris Wrote:
(May 22, 2012 at 12:51 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: If your religious beliefs are interchangable to the point you can more or less mold them around the facts is there really any point in hanging onto them? At some point it has to be painfully obvious its being used to fill the gaps in our knowledge we don't yet have enough data to cover.
What happens when that gap becomes smaller yet again due to human advancement? Will the concept of God retreat further back into the gap? When is that gap too small to hide in?
At what point are we to admit religion is the equivilent of an aging band-aid on a gunshot wound it can't possibly treat? That band-aid is no more a substitute for proper medical treatment than faith is for research.
Why humor it?

Well see the only thing I change is the first part of Genesis. Most of the rest, I view either as history or legend history (aka it's based off history, but the details have become corrupted over the years).

Right but doesn't that mean you could interpret the Bible, supposedly the word of God, more or less anyway you like?
I mean don't get me wrong, it beats taking it literally but is that really healthy?
Someone without a solid grasp of morality could do anything he wants and easily spin it so its alright by the Bible and many have.
Wouldn't a more reliable approach be to rely on your own mind, knowledge and basic faculties to determine what is and isn't real rather than an ancient book which by your own admission is distorted?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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