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[kimberly_t]

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Comments

[summer_jackel]

What gets me is that nothing about what he said is at all anti-religion or even inconsistant with a belief in diety. It only lightly critiques biblical literalism. There are a LOT of things in the Bible that IMHO would be more useful if accepted either as useful symbols or relicts of a previous culture, even to serious Christians.

I read 'The Song of the Dodo' by David Quammen recently (and I'm reccing it to everyone ;) an extrordinarily good book mostly about extinctions and island biology which discusses, among a gazillion other things, the discomfort Christian biologists went through after the discovery of the Americas. After new species were discovered, and then more, and more, and more...the story of Noah's ark, taken literally, became so obviously physically impossible. It's fascinating, but it's funny how it dosen't seem to bother that many Christians any more.

I wish people would just THINK, especially those who have bred. :P

[dtaina]

So, according to this woman, the sun is the only great light in the universe and the moon is capable of producing its own light. I'm starting to wonder if this woman even acknowledges the fact that the Earth is round! :P

But seriously, just because you believe in God doesn't mean you have to forget about common sense. And the fact that she has children scares me...

[brightredglow]

*blinks* Wow. And I thought I was sensitive.

[sandrusevich]

....

*snorts*

[sabledrake]

Yeesh.

-- C.