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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Arnott" data-source="post: 66629" data-attributes="member: 304"><p>Re: You're welcome.</p><p></p><p>A few things. </p><p></p><p>First off, I have thought about it a lot. I don't know when I came to this conclusion, or how. But as long as I can remember, I have thought of the bible as a guide as to how to live. Thou shalt not kill, etc. </p><p>And that just as all stories my brother told, there might be an element of truth, it might be verbatim how it happened, or it might be completely fabricated to make a point. It all comes down to Noah's Ark. And trying to defend that one as science has many twisting in their Civil Engineering boots. (And leads to weird museums in far away and imaginary lands like Kentucky.) (Just for the record I am against the reintroduction of Velociraptors.)</p><p></p><p>Next, the bible is also not as permanent as it first seems to be. There is the fact that it was written in languages different from those that most of us here speak. And the language it its written in can have a profound effect on how it is meant, and taken. This does not even take into account the difficulty of translating it. Then add the fact that there were no copy machines, or printing presses, and that interns were given the job of writing the bible out by hand, and that there were mistakes made from time to time, and these mistakes re-written in the next copy. And finally that there were stories added to the bible along the way. The most famous of these is the story of "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." A good story, and worth having in there, but added hundreds of years after Jesus' death. </p><p></p><p>A couple of weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about evolution. That several mathematicians have a new theory that for about the first billion years, life on earth was an open source. As in, if one being developed a new gene that would do some certain thing, that those around it could share that gene, and vice versa. Then after that point beings started becoming closed systems, and developing individually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack Arnott, post: 66629, member: 304"] Re: You're welcome. A few things. First off, I have thought about it a lot. I don't know when I came to this conclusion, or how. But as long as I can remember, I have thought of the bible as a guide as to how to live. Thou shalt not kill, etc. And that just as all stories my brother told, there might be an element of truth, it might be verbatim how it happened, or it might be completely fabricated to make a point. It all comes down to Noah's Ark. And trying to defend that one as science has many twisting in their Civil Engineering boots. (And leads to weird museums in far away and imaginary lands like Kentucky.) (Just for the record I am against the reintroduction of Velociraptors.) Next, the bible is also not as permanent as it first seems to be. There is the fact that it was written in languages different from those that most of us here speak. And the language it its written in can have a profound effect on how it is meant, and taken. This does not even take into account the difficulty of translating it. Then add the fact that there were no copy machines, or printing presses, and that interns were given the job of writing the bible out by hand, and that there were mistakes made from time to time, and these mistakes re-written in the next copy. And finally that there were stories added to the bible along the way. The most famous of these is the story of "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." A good story, and worth having in there, but added hundreds of years after Jesus' death. A couple of weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about evolution. That several mathematicians have a new theory that for about the first billion years, life on earth was an open source. As in, if one being developed a new gene that would do some certain thing, that those around it could share that gene, and vice versa. Then after that point beings started becoming closed systems, and developing individually. [/QUOTE]
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