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To: metmom
Its not in there, the bible is not a scientific textbook.

Go ahead, go to a university with a bible and ask to be a professor teaching an accredited course in electronics or mathematics using just the bible.

Its a book of stories, written for illiterate people, using stories and metaphors, not a book to teach someone how to interpret the world around them and unlock the mysteries of the world.

Your hypocrisy is only equaled by your willful ignorance.
121 posted on 12/12/2006 3:12:38 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Pro Evolution, Pro Stem Cell Research, Pro Science, Pro Free Thought, and Conservative)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Go ahead, go to a university with a bible and ask to be a professor teaching an accredited course in electronics or mathematics using just the bible.

I've always wondered why evolution is such a bristling threat to religious persons when, say - a medical scientist describing how the circulatory system distributes oxygen isn't an equal threat.

Evolution is "how" not "why".

125 posted on 12/12/2006 4:14:34 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Its not in there, the bible is not a scientific textbook.

Some of it's there as I said before and it's written in a manner which most anyone anywhere can understand. No one said it was a thorough university level treatment of the subject but just because it isn't, doesn't mean it's wrong. If that's the case, then is all high school and elementary school education is wrong because it's at a lower level and explained in terms geared for the age and ability of the students learning it? Because it isn't a thorough university level treatment of the subject area?

Its a book of stories, written for illiterate people, using stories and metaphors, not a book to teach someone how to interpret the world around them and unlock the mysteries of the world.

Well, that's only your opinion, which means that it's nothing more than that- the opinion of person out of 5 billion plus. That doesn't make it an established fact.

What hypocrisy? How have you determined that I am a hypocrite? In what areas have you determined that I am willfully ignorant? How do you know what I know and why?

126 posted on 12/12/2006 4:15:27 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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