ucbmonet.arnold@ucbcad.UUCP (06/27/83)
#R:orstcs:14800002:ucbmonet:22400017:000:498 ucbmonet!arnold Jun 23 16:29:00 1983 I would disagree that the Bible is creationistic. I would agree it could be intrepreted that way. If, however, you insist that it can only be read in a creationistic fashion, you deny the intelligence of many thinking Christians who are not creationists. Ken P.S. I do not mean to imply by this that anyone who does interpret it this way is not intelligent. I'm sure there are intelligent creationists. I'm not sure I would use the epithet "thinking", but that is another argument entirely.
rand@orstcs.UUCP (07/25/83)
#N:orstcs:14800002:000:1498 orstcs!rand Jun 20 13:08:00 1983 Subject: Rainbows and discussions I've seen a lot of banter about the rainbow after the flood being a promise to not flood the entire earth again. I will add my two (one?) cents worth. Genesis 2:4ff: This is the account of the heavens and earth when they were created. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up; the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams (alt: mist) came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Genesis 7:4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, ... (New International Version) As fas as I know there is no mention of rain between those verses, suppose that there really was no rain before the flood! Then the promise would have some significance. Now, before I hear from everybody, let me say something: Please discuss this rationally, remember, if you are a creationist, perhaps you should take it at face value, if you are something else, remember the concept is in the context of the Scriptures, which are themselves creationistic. About the possibility of a group to intelligently discuss the heavier subjects such as net.inquiry, I'm for it. There is a good argument for the above concept which I have seen somewhere, but it gets deeply into the creation/evolution discussion and I don't think I want to put it on here.