Message from @pd
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i never said i know where the universe came from
But that is a part of rejecting religion
If you accept monkeyman theory then surely you have some idea of what made the world if not God
i dont reject religion
i just don't believe the bible was the beginning of man
What is that if not a rejection of religion?
Assuming you mean "bibles", not just the christian bible
this is of course a very bible-absolutistic pov
Which bible(s) did you mean?
any really
So they are all wrong? But science is correct?
a great deal of religious people don't necessarily take the bible to be a literal account of events
Those are called heretics
lol yes
If majority rule does not apply here, why does it apply to barney theory?
"Well I fondly remember the land before time from my childhood"
that wasn't the basis of my argument
No
It was not
I'm just asking
i didn't mean it as any evidence. i just wanted to open you up to the idea that some people interpret the bible metaphorically
so they might get benefits in that way
That's heresy
and they might call you an extremist
What benefits will they get by lying to themselves that the book is true and not true at the same time?
as much benefit as you would anything else
"Only the nice parts were real"
You cannot grow as a person if you reject "unhappy bad bads"
sometimes the lessons aren't so nice
so i'm not sure why them being nice would even relate to being true
The lessons are always nice among these metaphorical christians
Which is an apt name, as they are only metaphorically christians
How do we know Darwin wasn't speaking in metaphors?
because he has documentation of things that currently exist
He didn't actually see those really old turtles, he was just being metaphorical
you can easily tie the reports with other things we can observe
We can't observe monkeys turning into people
a senior citizen building a gigantic ark and rounding up two of every animal is a little less easily proved
According to the theory of evolution, recorded history starts quite some time after monkeys turned into people
It really is just blind faith
Herd mentality