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Rahvin
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Message 283 of 373 (698243)
05-04-2013 4:56 PM
Reply to: Message 282 by Coyote
05-04-2013 11:59 AM


Re: Dating again
If the bible says that dinosaurs coexisted with man it is wrong.
That's pretty much all there is to it.
There's always the possibility that Faith's interpretation is wrong. After all, just because Faith completely and utterly misunderstands and misinterprets things like the theory of evolution or radiometric dating doesn't mean those scientific principles are inaccurate. The same can apply to her Bible.
I've seen some excellent analysis of some of the more outlandish interpretations of supposed megafauna in the Bible - it's quite readily apparent that real creatures like, for instance, rhinos, elephants, and the like account for what many Creationists interpret to be unicorns and dinosaurs.
Not that I'm actually arguing in favor of Biblical accuracy, mind you - just that Faith's Bible isn't wrong about absolutely everything, and her interpretation of it lines up with reality even less.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. - Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." - Barash, David 1995.

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