Why read the Bible literally: take two

When you get serious I'll be happy to answer your questions.

I am always serious - the logical outcome of your answer that perfect people can sleep with family members and anyone else that crosses their path surely means that people in heaven can sleep with family members.I'm sorry that you don't think I'm serious but those seem to be logical next steps in regards to your current story about 900 old perfect people.

Genetic perfection and the perfection of life in heaven are not the same thing, and as usual you are refusing to consider the difference between sinful and lawful sex.

how can it be "as usual" - we have exchanged about 4 posts about the matter. What a strange comment to make!People don't have sex in heaven? Can you point me towards the chapter in the bible that states this? I've had a quick look and can't find it.I can see that this is conversation is making you angry and upset - so we will speak of it no more.This message has been edited by Charles Knight, 01-Jul-2005 03:50 PMThis message has been edited by Charles Knight, 01-Jul-2005 03:51 PM

Whereas scientific method in other fields--well, that's different.They are not such clowns in other areas.It's only in this field of biology that you find the clowns, for some reason.Or perhaps creationists don't accept, say, atomic theory either.

Well, according to Matt. 22:30, Jesus said: And if lawful sex requires marriage, then that is that.

many thanks ...but if marriage doesn't exist..... How can it unlawful to break a law that doesn't exist?So it could be that everyone is getting it on with everyone or nobody is getting it on with no-one.I guess we will never know....

Don't ask me. I don't understand the first thing about all of this sin and laws and rules and stuff. Evidently God likes some stuff and hates other stuff, and when you get to heaven you're going to follow his rules, and you're gonna like it.

You don't really think Charles has a chance at heaven, do you?Not by a considerable sight.

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People don't have sex in heaven? Can you point me towards the chapter in the bible that states this? I've had a quick look and can't find it.

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I can see that this is conversation is making you angry and upset - so we will speak of it no more.

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Perhaps you speak from ignorance, but it often sounds like something else, and I never know if I should just ignore you or take you as meaning what you say.This message has been edited by Faith, 07-01-2005 04:16 PM

deleted by author - why bother?This message has been edited by Charles Knight, 01-Jul-2005 04:21 PM

I don't see clowns, I see people laboring under a theory that can't be proved or disproved, and doing good science that gets swallowed up in the theory.This message has been edited by Faith, 07-01-2005 04:21 PM

And who is to blame for this state of affairs?Is TOE really a political movement, an anti-religious movement?Because science thrives on competition between competing theories. That's how it works. The truth will come out in the competition.Scientists are as biased as everybody else, but the method is not biased. But you are suggesting that there is a bias here--otherwise, TOE would have been thrown out long ago.

I think that it simply took hold for whatever reason and now can't be challenged. If the ToE were testable and falsifiable that could be counted on, but it isn't. One can endlessly interpret data into it because there's nothing that can falsify the interpretation. Creationists have alternative interpretations but they can't be proved either, so they just don't get taken seriously. The ToE is not subject to scientific method. Most of the actual science that goes on around it is, but the ToE isn't.

You've said this frequently, and I'm not sure how to respond to it. It's off topic here, but it might make a good new topic.Why don't you introduce it as a new topic?If you don't want to, I can. I want to see what somebody will reply who knows what they are talking about, since I am not educated in science.