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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: THE RAPE/INCEST MYTH.
- Message-ID: <72hma8+.ray@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:16:15 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services
- References: <64097@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Jul22.211859.27171@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Jul23.165522.1975@brandonu.ca>
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- mcbeanb@brandonu.ca writes ...
- >, steven@jaynes ( Steve Novak) writes:
- >> Why would a set of outdated writings, full of mistakes, translated into
- >> pablum, written *2000 years* ago, and filled with unlikely fairy tales
- >> be given credence by an avowed atheist? (Or even anyone else?) The bible
- >> contains some nice philosophical points and moral guidelines, but that god
- >> depicted in the Old Testament seems like one twisted cookie to me.
- >>
- >> I mean, what *else* from 2,000 years ago is given credence by modern man?
- >
- >Ummmmmm... how about fossils/geological/paleontological evidence etc?
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- Fossils make no assertions.
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