--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This reminds me of this whole "intelligent design" crap that is going on > and the White House dimbo is promoting. I have a way of making it > backfire on them as we can agree that "no, an amoeba did not create life > on the planet. It was just a step along the way. There is an > intelligence that underlies all of creation which can be observed > through physics. Yes, you are right the world was created in six days. > Six "God" days however and I believe if we take the length in human > years of one day of Brahma the Creator in Indian philosophy we get the > beginning of creation coinciding with the Big Bang." > > I called this explanation in on a small town radio talk show in the > 1980's that was discussing creationism. It sort of left them > dumbfounded. ;-)
It still doesn't convince the fundamentalists who believe in a literal translation of the Bible. Clarence Darrow used exactly this argument in the Scopes trial. He even got William Jennings Bryan to *agree* on the stand that the "days" referred to in Genesis could possibly be eras or longer periods. His testimony was excised from the record and Darrow lost the case and all the fundamentalists lived happily thereafter. For awhile. There's an interesting writeup on Bryan and the trial and his part in it at: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/bryanw.htm One great segment: In the eyes of many of his followers, Bryan's concession in his testimony that the "days" of Genesis might be "periods" made obvious for the first time that his theory of Biblical interpretation was not one of strict literalism. Bryan's opposition to evolution clearly had another source. In the words of his biographer Lawrence Levine, "His literal acceptance of the Bible did not lead to his rejection of evolution so much his rejection of evolution led to his willingness to accept literally certain portion of the Bible." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
