> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11:40 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Religious nut shows her stripes > > > Brian wrote: > > This kind of stuff is absolutely fascinating to me. The beautiful thing > > about this, that no one seems to understand, is that this in no way > > invalidates a "God".
No - but it does invalidate much of what these people believe about the bible. It's not "spiritual free thinkers" that are causing issues on this front - its biblical literalists. The world IS 6-some-thousand years old. The world WAS covered completely by a flood. Each species was brought into being "after its kind" by God and did not evolve. May argument/wonderment is why these people seem to want, desperately want, scientific evidence for their beliefs. They search for Noah's Ark, they posit claims that the action of the Colorado could have produced the Grand Canyon in less than 5,000 years, they test (and ignore the results) and retest (and ignore the results) the Shroud of Turin. Could not God has instilled his young creation with so much ambiguity simply as a test to the faithful? For surely if there is ambiguity then it must be God's work? Isn't any attempt to eliminate that ambiguity going against the will of God? Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:161138 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
