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There are no answers in Genesis
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RE: There are no answers in Genesis
(November 21, 2022 at 9:24 am)Belacqua Wrote: King Lear is bad because it doesn't contain the formula for DNA.

Is it reasonable to expect King Lear to contain the formula for DNA?
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#12
RE: There are no answers in Genesis
King Lear would be bad, very bad, unspeakably bad if customarily, and continued to be, passed off as the word of god.  But even then, it would still far far better than genesis.
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RE: There are no answers in Genesis
(November 21, 2022 at 9:24 am)Belacqua Wrote: King Lear is bad because it doesn't contain the formula for DNA.

No one is trying to pass off King Lear as a scientific treatise.

Boru
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#14
RE: There are no answers in Genesis
The fool in King Lear used humor and sarcasm as a way to the truth, which is an ability typical forum fools lack.
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(November 20, 2022 at 12:59 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Guess what? Your magic spell (the complicated one) isn't any better than the Genesis spell.

The complicated one allows you to participate on this forum.
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#16
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Snarky response to the OP: oh, it has answers...just to the questions that do not interest physical reductionists.

Measured response to OP: maybe the purpose of the text is not to provide answers but to prompt the reader to ponder the significance of the story. These stories are very old...what the past wanted us to have. Our ancestor's preserved them for us at great cost because they speak to something vital about the human condition. I would say the same about the ancient texts of other religions as well.
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RE: There are no answers in Genesis
(November 21, 2022 at 2:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Snarky response to the OP: oh, it has answers...just to the questions that do not interest physical reductionists.

Measured response to OP: maybe the purpose of the text is not to provide answers but to prompt the reader to ponder the significance of the story. These stories are very old...what the past wanted us to have. Our ancestor's preserved them for us at great cost because they speak to something vital about the human condition. I would say the same about the ancient texts of other religions as well.

Prior to Hutton, believers took Genesis literally; why not just abandon it and see all of it for what it is, bronze-age mythologies?
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RE: There are no answers in Genesis
(November 21, 2022 at 2:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Snarky response to the OP: oh, it has answers...just to the questions that do not interest physical reductionists.

Measured response to OP: maybe the purpose of the text is not to provide answers but to prompt the reader to ponder the significance of the story. These stories are very old...what the past wanted us to have. Our ancestor's preserved them for us at great cost because they speak to something vital about the human condition. I would say the same about the ancient texts of other religions as well.

I may be mistaken, but I rather think the OP was - however obliquely - referring to Answers In Genesis, Ken Ham’s ludicrously pseudoscientific attempt to replace science with Biblical literalism.

If one chooses to read Genesis for an analogy regarding ‘something vital about the human condition’, I shan’t quibble. It is not, and was never intended to be, a text on cosmology.

Boru
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(November 21, 2022 at 2:25 pm)Jehanne Wrote:
(November 21, 2022 at 2:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Snarky response to the OP: oh, it has answers...just to the questions that do not interest physical reductionists.

Measured response to OP: maybe the purpose of the text is not to provide answers but to prompt the reader to ponder the significance of the story. These stories are very old...what the past wanted us to have. Our ancestor's preserved them for us at great cost because they speak to something vital about the human condition. I would say the same about the ancient texts of other religions as well.

Prior to Hutton, believers took Genesis literally; why not just abandon it and see all of it for what it is, bronze-age mythologies?

Tell, that to LinuxGal.
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RE: There are no answers in Genesis
(November 21, 2022 at 4:56 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(November 21, 2022 at 2:25 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Prior to Hutton, believers took Genesis literally; why not just abandon it and see all of it for what it is, bronze-age mythologies?

Tell, that to LinuxGal.

I don't think that she takes any of it seriously, which is the whole point of her post.
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