Re: the Flood

Farrell Till (jftill@midwest.net)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:28:50 -0600 (CST)

KEVIN
> I don't know why all these things are so, but I think that's one
>of the things that is so wonderful about the Bible, and discovering how
>these things came about. I view it as an oppurtunity to increase por
>knowledge, scientific or otherwise. Granted, many accounts in the Bible
>defy what we think are certain unalterable laws or notions of the Earth's
>history, but we have discovered things in the past that have seemingly
>gone against what we originally thought and led to grater knowledge.

TILL 12/4
Oh, please, Kevin! Spare us simplistic platitudes like this. What is so
wonderful about a book filled with so many asinine stories that one has to
take leave of his senses in order to believe them and then rationalize by
saying, "I don't know why all these things are so, but I think that's one of
the things that is so wonderful about the Bible, and discovering how these
things came about." Well, Kevin, if you can't discover how these things
came about, as in the case of the flood story, does that ever give you pause
to wonder if they really did "come about"?

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net