bazarov
04-13-2010, 02:17 PM
Atheist said:
That's very easy with a factual approach, as summed up by Niamh - dinosaurs are millions of years older than humans and there is an enormous wealth of factual literature available throughout every library and university in the world to show that this is the case.
From geology to paleontology to physics to mathematics, it is demonstrable that dinsosaurs lived immensely long before humans.
As long as the bible refers to dinosaurs metaphorically, there is no problem at all.
If the bible is produced as any kind of evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, then the bible or its interpretation is simply incorrect, because dinosaurs aren't compatible with the bible.
The more liberal religions in the world - i.e. almost all of them - accept these facts and treat the bible as allegorical in terms of timeline.
Why don't you accept Eden as part of Jewish mithology?
It is obvious and well known that all animals came from dinosaurs. So they couldn't travel with Noa because they didn't exist in that form any more.
Also, 6 days creation has many ''errors'' and even Rome is not neglecting Darwin's theory and Darwin is probably correct.
If we all can accept Zeus, Hera, Hefest as Gods and probably nobody believes in mud/magic Zeus's breath equals humans theory, why can't you accept same thing in Bible? Slavs, Germans, Nordics, Romans...they all have their mithology, first mens and Gods and nobody attacks them, probably because they didn't write Bible. Just accept that as mithology and many Bible credibility problems will be solved.
Sound easy, I know!
That's very easy with a factual approach, as summed up by Niamh - dinosaurs are millions of years older than humans and there is an enormous wealth of factual literature available throughout every library and university in the world to show that this is the case.
From geology to paleontology to physics to mathematics, it is demonstrable that dinsosaurs lived immensely long before humans.
As long as the bible refers to dinosaurs metaphorically, there is no problem at all.
If the bible is produced as any kind of evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, then the bible or its interpretation is simply incorrect, because dinosaurs aren't compatible with the bible.
The more liberal religions in the world - i.e. almost all of them - accept these facts and treat the bible as allegorical in terms of timeline.
Why don't you accept Eden as part of Jewish mithology?
It is obvious and well known that all animals came from dinosaurs. So they couldn't travel with Noa because they didn't exist in that form any more.
Also, 6 days creation has many ''errors'' and even Rome is not neglecting Darwin's theory and Darwin is probably correct.
If we all can accept Zeus, Hera, Hefest as Gods and probably nobody believes in mud/magic Zeus's breath equals humans theory, why can't you accept same thing in Bible? Slavs, Germans, Nordics, Romans...they all have their mithology, first mens and Gods and nobody attacks them, probably because they didn't write Bible. Just accept that as mithology and many Bible credibility problems will be solved.
Sound easy, I know!