There is no need to construct arguments to dispute Biblical literalists. Any reasonable person can do it in a matter of seconds.
On 2/13/07, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am very religious and believe the same thing. Additionally, Pope John > Paul II stated that this belief is not incompatible with Roman Catholic > Dogma. > > >Myself, I'm at least somewhat religious, and I like to think that the 7 > days > >God took to create the world was actually billions of years. > > We all know God has a sense of humor, he made daughters. But I don't > think he applied it to the fossil history of the world. I have spent too > much time crawling around the Creataceaus badlands (Selma chalks) and > digging in the Eocene hurricane deposits (Gosport Sand) in Alabama to > believe in young Earth. Humping geophysical equipment across the chaos in > Death Valley (Amargosa Chaos) made me wish for a flat Earth, however. > > > > >Whose to say that one of God's days was 24 hours long? He doesn't live > on a > >planet that rotates every 24 hours. > > Exactly, and in Genesis he didn't create the Sun until day 3, iirc? So > how were days measured before that? > > And what most Bible Literalists ignore is that there are 2 creation > stories in Genesis. So did God create the world and decide he didn't like > it even if ity was good and start all over? > > > > >-- > >I'm not certified, but I have been told that I'm certifiable... > >Visit http://www.opensourcecf.com today! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227920 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
