> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:23 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Letter to dangerous bible nutz
>
> > Judith Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Science is constantly changing and being reevaluated
> > (as it should be) -- but it cannot shake my religious beliefs.
>
> Why do science and religion have to be mutually exclusive? I've never
> understood why someone couldn't believe that humans and apes have a
> common ancestor AND that there is a God. Why does it have to be one
> or the other?
It simply depends on how fundamentalist you are. A true biblical literalist
(well, at least those of the King James tradition) believes that the earth
was created somewhat over 6,000 years ago. They believe that all species
that exist today were each crafted that way specifically ("each to his kind"
is the quotation I believe).
For these people it has to be one or the other (or more specifically it has
to be their faith).
Somebody that says, for example, "I believe that God created the situation
that caused the big bang" is faithful, no doubt, but is believed to be "just
as bad" by fundamentalists.
It's these literalists that are mostly who're behind the whole ID situation.
> If the answer is that the bible describes creation, how do we know
> that we're not reading things into the stories? Not to get into
> biblical scholarship, but there's the whole "J" text, "Y" text thing,
> the multiple translational problems, stories told with 2 different
> outcomes, etc.
I don't believe this ever held up under scrutiny, but I'm hardly a biblical
scholar.
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