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Science Mann [06 January 2012 18:10]
Mary, To support your interpretation that 'days' was a measure of time, the original Hebrew word was 'yod'. Yod can either mean 'day' or 'long period of time'. If you want to jam science into seven yod, make each yod last 2 billion years and you'd be a lot closer than most creationists. Now, given 13.5 billion years to play with, and the law of the jungle where fast eats slow, strong eats weak and smart
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mcluhanist [06 January 2012 12:00]
Mary, there may be a God, however, probably not Yahweh. The God of the Bible is a sadistic, manipulative, jealous mass murderer. You can cherry pick throughout the old and new testaments, there's no getting around the contradictions and fabricated stories. As an anti-theist you're able to appreciate the numinous nature of reality around you without calling on imaginary friends or a book of dubious origin. Christianity tricks the unsophisticated by sophistry. That isn't to say there aren't passages of value in the book, there certainly are, however, most (if not all) of these parables have been borrowed from great philosophical thinkers of years past. They aren't new ideas.
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