[Southflanknorthpawsis]

He didn't unnecessarily digress or expand on what was his main message, and that was a religious one, not a scientific one.

Gee, I haven't heard that one before. Quite creative (no pun intended).

Zulu, you seem as if you are not particularly settled with your beliefs and nothing I say is going to change that. I hope you straighten it all out eventually.

I am tired of repeating myself here and need to move along. I usually avoid these threads because they all end up the same way.

I suppose I fell into this because I have recently seen many blessings in my life and I felt like maybe I needed to spend some time defending God and what I believe His words to say.

I never had any delusions of softening the hearts of those who either don't believe in God at all or those that want to restrict Him to only attributes that can be explained by man.

I know that He understands that and it is really all that matters.

[ZULU]

"I suppose I fell into this because I have recently seen many blessings in my life and I felt like maybe I needed to spend some time defending God and what I believe His words to say"

God needs no defense. The reality of creation is His defense. I'm not attacking God, nor attacking the Bible, just disagreeing with a narrow and literal interpretation of portions of it.

But maybe your right. Perhaps the thread on snakes should be "scaled" down.