I think the point of this section is to hear suck-o members talk about things other than technology. Threads like this one shouldn't be an exception, I would say.
The story of Noah's ark doesn't say every animal on the world was on a boat. It says males and females of every sort of animal.
A valid criticism of the story is that most plants would never have survived being underwater for so long if there ever was a flood.
John_W wrote:Be careful, the bible can actually not be read like a historic text; the bible must be interpreted by the reader to be understood correctly (this is called exegesis).
This means that god is actually a personification of nature, and of course the world was not created in 6 days (the 6 days are rather a way of telling that a new era began - big bang would be first day, etc...)
Further, if you take a look at the bible you'll see that there are two different stories of the creation of the world, both are not correct as they are written, but merely are a way of the author to explain what he knew about the process of evolution.
Let's take another example used at school to explain why there are two versions of one process: Think of a biologist, a floristic and a poet writing about a rose; all three of them will tell you different things, all of them are true - of course the creation of the world didn't happen as it's written in the bible, but it shows how the people thought at the time they wrote their texts.
Ah right, "it shouldn't be taken literally", "what He meant to say was...".
The details of the book are irrelevant. Claims that there exists a God or a heaven are unscientific. They have no factual basis. No one has ever proven in the 6,000 years of life on earth (haha) that God exists. Instead, believers rely on "faith", which is the word that means belief in something without evidence. There is just as little evidence for the claims in the bible today as there was when the books were written.
Science is constantly progressing. The
scientific method has been leading us to the truth about our universe. Science is what lead us to put a man on the moon. Science gave us skyscrapers and 747s.
Religion has lead people to blindly believe. "Pray". Ignorance and irrationality. I think it's a disgrace.
people are dumb ^^.
