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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I had an argument with a minister (fundamentalist and Baptist) about this sort of thing ... around the time I left the Christian church (I guess I was about 15 ...). My thought back then was that even if you assumed that a god existed, I doubted that he was going to start his holy book with "In the beginning there was a immense explosion, and billions upon billions of years later, there was a coallessing of atoms ...." (I was a proponent of an expanding universe at a very early age ... steady state just didn't appeal to me.)
He actually went to our house and asked my mother to make sure I didn't come to "his" church anymore. My mother informed him that she didn't want me living with braces on my brains, so she would make certain I didn't.
Yaaaay Mom!!!  |
RM, what I find interesting it that if you correct for multiple translations, and that the original source was written for a non-scientific (and barely literate) audience, what you end up with in the tale of the beginning in Genesis
is the big bang theory. The amazing thing is that
this myth beat out all the others over 5,000 years to match up with modern physics.....