rcd@opus.UUCP (03/13/84)
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OK, I'll toss in 2 cents worth (or less, probably). Without belaboring it
very much, it seems to me that if you assume that the Bible contains the
answers to all the big questions about how the universe was created, you
don't give a lot of credit to the existence of our brains. If God gave you
a brain and wanted you to use it, why did he give you the answers to the
hard questions? The "creation story" is simply an allegorical explanation,
perhaps suitable for the state of knowledge of several thousand years ago
but hardly useful now...and the best theories of cosmology that we have now
will seem like a crude allegorical explanation in another thousand years -
that is, unless we hang up science and substitute ancient myth as some
would have us do...
If God hadn't meant you to think, he wouldn't have given you a brain. (You
can think that over for 20 or 30 usec and write your own flames. I won't;
they're too obvious.)
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