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Originally posted by Darwin Storm:
Ok, I have to ask. What is it that drives YECists to a literal interpretation of the bible? Parables seem to be a common approach in teaching morality. Jesus was said to have used them frequently himself. So why do creationists so ardently defend a literal interpretation of a text that was written without the benefits of modern science?
I have often wondered this myself. Just today I entered a rather heated argument on the respective merits of science and religion, the 2. thermodynamic law and evolution's supposed violation of this and Intelligent Design with some creationists on a Norwegian website. They argued with the very same and old arguments that I have seen so many times before, even if I have shown and told them countless times that their arguments are flawed and based on misconceptions and misunderstandings. Yet they return after some time with the same old arguments and lies.
This makes me think that the belief in an infallable Bible is crucial to a large number of christians. Without that belief they just as might give up their religion and rather than facing that posibillity they use every trick in the boook to discredit evolution and any other scientific disipline that violates the Bible.
It probably has something to to with the fear of hearing arguments like "If that is wrong, why not this...?".
The Arachnophile
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