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Originally posted by frudi_x:
would you be sattisfied with me saying it's obvious the scientific explanation carries more weight than a theological one?
i would guess not, so why do you resort to such worthless arguments?
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The 2 are not mutually exclusive, personaly I believe it is a big mistake to assign the creation story a literal translation from our point of view. It can be literal from the creator's point of view, since He is not governed by time, what is a day to Him? What is 1,000,000,000,000 years? Both are nothing to Him.
Even now with all our best brains and super computers we can't get any closer to How it happened then 10^-43 sec after, in theory! How can it be expected for a bunch of sheep and goat herders that had barely learned how to melt copper and make tools be expected to grasp the concepts of Physics? They just knew, you heat a certain type of rock up and it melts, they couldn't tell you why heat looses the molecular bonds. So why would an Infinite being try to cram into their heads the physics of sub-atomic particals(sp?)? They weren't ready for the How, but they were ready for the Why IMHO. [img]smile.gif[/img]
EDIT: Actually they weren't even ready for the Why, when it was originaly given to them(1,200 or so B.C.), that came about later about 2,000 years ago. They were only ready for the fact it happened.
[ 09-04-2004, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]