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To: D-fendr
Myths can be seen as models - a model of something larger incapable of being fully understood, but capable of an abstraction of a part, conceptualizing...As scientist say: All models are false, some are useful.

If biblical myths are models, then by definition they are false, even if they are useful to some.

20 posted on 04/09/2010 7:44:20 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
If biblical myths are models, then by definition they are false

I think there can be a difference between facts and truth. I also think that there are objective or non-conditional truths - myths can be true in this sense though not factual. I believe, I'm almost certain, we disagree on both statements.

even if they are useful to some.

We might agree that myths are useful to some.

23 posted on 04/09/2010 8:31:32 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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