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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Atheism and Intelligence
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- References: <1992Dec13.061001.18766@linus.mitre.org> <a6J2VB4w165w@iowegia.uucp> <heflin.725649130@cherokee30>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:14:40 GMT
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- heflin@rtsg.mot.com (Suzanne Stratton Heflin) writes:
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- >quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest) writes:
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- >> Check out the library- how many factual verses fictional
- >>books are there? My opinion holds that the bible is about 10
- >>percent fact, "jazzed up" with fiction to make their god represent
- >>more power than the other gods of the time. A bit of the old
- >>childhood "my Dad can beat up your Dad" scenerio. Fiction is
- >>important and prolific in our society. It is no wonder why the
- >>bible is filled with it.................sq
-
- >Which 10% would you say is fact? How do you explain the hundreds of
- >prophecies in the Bible that have proven true, verified by other ancient
- >historians and even modern archaeologists? Many people, myself included,
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- Which prophecies would you say have been "proven true"? Your statement
- has as little support as Steve's statements.
-
- >wonder why there is so much "boring fact" in the Bible, particularly in the
- >Old Testament, when we'd rather have just the good "God stuff" Well, that
- >"boring fact" is looking more and more interesting to those that feel, as
- >you do, that the Bible is 90% fiction. Don't judge the Bible, or the
- >Christian faith, by hearsay alone, or what you see one believer do.
- >Investigate it as you would anything, by rigorous study and scientific
- >method. I think you'll be surprised at astronomers and archaeologists that
- >have set out to disprove some aspect of the Bible, only to become believers.
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- I'd be supprised to see a list of these "astronomers and archaeologists"
- people seem to like talking about but never name.
-
- People on both sides of this issue seem to like to throw around vague
- assertions without supplying any hard evidence.
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