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To: RoadTest
"I would rather believe God,..."

You must understand, it's not a matter of believing G-d, it's a matter of believing that the man-made record, written thousands of years ago is the last word in biology. To possess a need to accept scripture, with all of it's obvious errors, as an inerrant statement on all things scientific is to choose to miss it's beauty and real purpose as a moral and ethical guide.

147 posted on 09/27/2005 3:13:55 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods
You must understand, it's not a matter of believing G-d, it's a matter of believing that the man-made record, written thousands of years ago is the last word in biology. To possess a need to accept scripture, with all of it's obvious errors, as an inerrant statement on all things scientific is to choose to miss it's beauty and real purpose as a moral and ethical guide.

Let me see if I have this straight; lies, mistakes and errors are a moral and ethical guide?

When you say, "you must understand", isn't that imperative an absolutist type statement? It seems to imply that you have the inside scoop on the meaning of those things written those many thousands of years ago and that others are obliged to accept your opinion. Why?

What you characterize as "obvious errors" implies that scholastics throughout the ages and the rest of us who believe the accuracy and historicity of the Scripture in those things it addresses are benighted, ignorant bigots wearing blinders, incapable and or unwilling to see the truth right in front of our faces that a pack of lies, mistakes and obvious errors can serve as a moral and ethical guide.

You have invented a god in your mind, an idol, that can or cannot do certain things according to your own image. It is not the God of Creation, History and the Bible that I know.

Cordially,

165 posted on 09/27/2005 9:33:30 AM PDT by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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