Ok, that's really funny :) Scott Stroz wrote: > This reminds me of something that happened to me in High School. I went to > private school run by the Christian Brothers. We were required to take > 'religion' class every year. During my freshman year, we actually learned > about a lot of other religions. One day, we were talking about the Bible, > specifically, Genisis and the teacher asked me, 'Why did God create light > before he created the sun?' > > My answer, 'So he could see what he was doing.' > > The teacher did not like that answer. > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Jim Davis <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Maureen [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:57 AM >>> To: cf-community >>> Subject: Re: This saddens me >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jim Davis >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> In short science and religion are only compatible as long as you're >>>> >>> willing >>> >>>> to make compromises to one or the other. >>>> >>> In the beginning, with a big bang, God (you define it) created the >>> heavens and the earth. It took him six God days, which even the Bible >>> is vague about defining, stating "a day with God could be as ten >>> thousand years". >>> >> The bible also says that God "separated the waters from the waters" before >> he "collected" the waters to reveal the dry land of the Earth. Science >> finds no evidence of the Earth being formed within a liquid water medium. >> Genesis also clearly states that God made the Sun and Moon (and all the >> stars) after the Earth - in fact after he made plants (and not just plants, >> but seed and fruit bearing plants). >> >> It's hard to imagine a time when science would consider the Earth the >> predecessor of the Sun or entertain the idea that fruit-bearing trees >> existed before the Sun. >> >> On the fourth day he created all the creatures of the Sea and the Birds >> while on the fifth he created the creatures of the land ("Cattle and >> creeping things"). Evolutionary, biological and taxonomic Sciences simply >> don't work in a world where birds evolved before all other land animals or >> where plants and animals didn't arise in parallel. >> >> The relative length of days as given in the bible is the least of our >> problems! The list I've given is far from the only concerns raised in >> Genesis alone... and let's remember that I never left the very first page >> of >> the Bible! Things don't get simpler to reconcile as we move on. >> >> Either you compromise religion and consider this story a pleasant myth with >> no real basis in truth or you compromise science and ignore huge, accepted >> swaths of evidence. >> >> Again, I'm not - ever - saying that individuals cannot reconcile faith and >> science. I'm arguing, stridently, that the success of those individuals >> cannot reasonably be held up as a solution to the clashes between religion >> (codified faith) and science that are going on today and have gone on for >> centuries. >> >> Jim Davis >> >> >> >> > >
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