“Would you acceot historical records of Joseph Smith?”
I can accept that he lived and he wrote and he spoke. As to the veracity of everything he imparted, I do not generally subscribe.
“Why would you believe the many wirters of Genesis any more than him?”
Did you even read what I wrote? The authors of Genesis could only write about that with which they were familiar; they could not write about that which they were not. It was oral tradition that God created all in six days. But, how long were those days? The authors of Genesis could only relate to the span of a day as they knew it; and the passage of time as they knew it. They could not have known that the earth had existed for billions of years before they had ever drawn breath.
And, as for God creating Man in His own image? Why not? Perhaps God created coelacanths in His own image, as well. And every other form of life. Because if God could create the planets, and the universe, and the vast cosmos, He could certainly create something as puny as Earth; and could populate it with whatever He wanted. And because He was the Creator, EVERYTHING was in His image.
SOMETHING, or SOME BEING, or SOMEONE had to have started the ball rolling; there had to have been a source, because something cannot be created by or evolve from nothing. We call that something, or that some being, or someone, GOD. What we call it is really immaterial.
“That leads to flat earth type thinking.”
Not at all. Because we seek to discover that which we do not know. Only a closed mind will say that his or her opinion is the be-all and end-all and that reality begins and ends with him or her.
I think it’s reasonable to think in the mutiverse model or many worlds Tha thinking there is some thinking creator you’re going to meet after you die. Once you give up on the idea that there is an intelligent design you can move into the more modern physics. Was there a god that set things in motion? Maybe. But believing in a creator that cares about puny earth’s desntiny, much less an individuals, is incredibly far fetched.
I think most people want to belive in a god instead of believing theirselvea and everyone they knew returns to a state of nothing like before you were born. That is the main bias to overcome.
I think it’s reasonable to think in the mutiverse model or many worlds Tha thinking there is some thinking creator you’re going to meet after you die. Once you give up on the idea that there is an intelligent design you can move into the more modern physics. Was there a god that set things in motion? Maybe. But believing in a creator that cares about puny earth’s desntiny, much less an individuals, is incredibly far fetched.
I think most people want to belive in a god instead of believing theirselvea and everyone they knew returns to a state of nothing like before you were born. That is the main bias to overcome.