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To: antiRepublicrat
"Saying data must be thrown out because it disagrees with a religious text is certainly not a scientific approach."

Of which data to you speak? No data have ever emerged that are in disagreement with any part of God's word. The disagreement is in the deluded mind of the false messinger.

BTW, the Bible is not a 'religious' text; Religion is the devious work of sin driven men, and the Bible is the word of God: truly inerrant.

432 posted on 06/30/2008 2:06:27 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: editor-surveyor
BTW, the Bible is not a 'religious' text; Religion is the devious work of sin driven men, and the Bible is the word of God: truly inerrant.

That'd make an interesting discussion in the Religion forum.

433 posted on 06/30/2008 2:09:29 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Religion is the devious work of sin driven men, and the Bible is the word of God: truly inerrant.

That's where you run into problems, where the text of the Bible disagrees with reality. It gets a lot easier to reconcile if you realize the Bible was put to paper by flawed men. Note that inerrancy is different than infallibility, which means the Bible is true for all issues regarding faith.

Simply take the Parable of the Mustard Seed. It has a good theological lesson, and the seed is as stated probably the smallest seed known to those people at the time. So the Bible is correct in meaning and correct in that limited context. But there's an orchid with a seed much smaller than mustard, and the giant sequoia probably has the biggest difference between seed and final plant size than mustard and thus would have been more appropriate for the parable, but Jesus would have known of neither of these plants growing across the Atlantic.

It's easy to reconcile if you sit back and be rational rather than sticking to inerrancy dogma.

443 posted on 06/30/2008 3:05:49 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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