[thomaswest]

view the Scriptures as "religious stories" but not historically accurate.

Which Scripture do you take as most authoritative and why? The Qu'ran, the Hindu Vedas? There are some 300 different creation myths from different historic periods and different peoples. None of them make much sense in terms of a modern understanding of the Universe and planet earth.

Noah's Flood story cannot be historically accurate--it contains internal contradictions; and moral flaws. If true, it would make a great number of things we humans have painstakingly learned from astronomy, geology, physics, biology, oceanography, botany, zoology, microbiology, etc. over centuries untrue. I prefer the science over ancient myths.

[zeeba neighba]

There are some 300 different creation myths

Indeed. Which one do you believe? Let's see: life began as a virus, life began on a meteorite from Mars, life was seeded on earth by comets, it just came from outer space, maybe it was a chimp who mutated, or evolved, , or a rat, oh maybe a dog, no, wait... and on and on. Which one is right?

[LiteKeeper]

All "religious writings" are not equally authoritative. Since most of them contradict each other, there is no way they can all be true. In the same way, not all religions are a reflection of true expressions of reality.

There is only one Biblical creation story...it is consistent with reality.