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Author Topic:   Species/Kinds (for Peg...and others)
anglagard
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Message 420 of 425 (543175)
01-15-2010 9:14 PM
Reply to: Message 417 by Coyote
01-15-2010 8:47 PM


Re: KIND
Coyote writes:
We can't correct you on this, as you are providing the biblical definition for "kind" (at long last!).
But we can point out that if kinds=species then the ark would have been awfully crowded! In fact, impossibly crowded.
And this is not even counting the stray Brontosaurus or two and all their cousins and in-laws that some believe were taken along for the ride!
Way back in the past (the early 70s) I read somewhere that if the purported ark was to hold all species known back then it would have had to have been scaled up to 60 miles long.
Strange that the rules of Leviticus and Deuteronomy become metaphor for convenience while Genesis becomes science due to a simple minded and fundamentally unchristian jealousy of the educated.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen

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anglagard
Member (Idle past 837 days)
Posts: 2339
From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
Joined: 03-18-2006


Message 421 of 425 (543183)
01-15-2010 10:58 PM
Reply to: Message 419 by ICANT
01-15-2010 9:07 PM


Re: Life and Kinds
ICANT writes:
I can not find a better answer. Do you have one?
Well, as Robin Williams said in a comedy routine, Couldn't "let there be light" be a metaphor for the "big bang" instead of God turning on a light switch.
Perhaps we should all, Christian or not, ask instead why should an idiosyncratic view of the divine stop aid to Haiti? Why should it be used to refuse care to those who suffer from diseases, including AIDS? Why should it be used to suppress education in the sciences, which has saved billions of lives in this reality? Why discard the Sermon on the Mount in favor of cheap grace, as in Paul?
I agree with Jar, science is how God did it, why the war against science?

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen

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