The Bible's Context of Production, and PBBD

[Michael Schubert]

I read biologist Ardea Skybreak's excellent book, The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism, and I came across the term Post Birth Brain Development (PBBD). This occurred during the evolutionary stage in which homo sapiens evolved into bipedal animals (walking on two legs instead of four). They eventually developed PBBD because they then had to learn to use their newly-acquired hands that were formerly feet that they walked on.

Human beings can easily use their hands today, but their brains are constantly developing. This is why science is an ongoing field of research, and scientists are formulating new theories and making new discoveries even as we speak.

But way back thousands of years ago when the Holy Bible was written, PBBD had not made it very far; people were dumb. They did not know what the Scientific Method was, and they had no logical way of discerning truth. This is precisely why the Holy Bible has both logical contradictions and plagiarized passages in it. Back then, people had no way of understanding the material world, so they made up fantasy stories about gods and devils, and they used fear manipulation to attract disciples to their cult.

"Hermeneutics" is the key term here. Hermeneutics says, when reading a text, a reader must put himself or herself in the shoes of the author. Theologian Stanley Grenz writes in A Primer on Postmodernism:

On this basis, the nineteenth-century theologian argues that in order to understand a text, an interpreter must set it in context within the life of the author, must get behind the printed words to the mind that wrote them.

So let us now put ourselves in the lives of the Holy Bible's authors. At the time they wrote it, no one was around to call b.s. on them. That is why the Holy Bible is nonsense.

Televangelists, Ray Comfort, Rick Santorum, Kirk Cameron, and the rest of the Christian Dominionist Church who impede the acceptance of science are why human PBBD is not making much progress today. They want to take the world back to the dark ages when no one knew anything about science and rationalism, and instead made up fantasy stories about the earth. I wish they would stop reproducing; they are making people stupid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmwEmxEjug

[Silver]

On this basis, the nineteenth-century theologian argues that in order to understand a text, an interpreter must set it in context within the life of the author, must get behind the printed words to the mind that wrote them.

As a writer, I can state with certainty that the above is correct.

[Minimalist]

people were dumb.

If you look at your average bible-thumper you'll see that they haven't evolved very far.

[Michael Schubert]

people were dumb.

If you look at your average bible-thumper you'll see that they haven't evolved very far.

I call them bible-humpers because it is more insulting.