Comment Re:No Real Conflicts? Really? (Score 0) 528
Whether the Bible is or is not based on divine revelation, it was written by pre-industrial people for pre-industrial people.
So an omnipotent and omniscient being's intent is undone by mere mortals. Good to know we're that powerful. Why didn't The Holy Spirit just take over the body of the writer and make it all perfect and then simply stop anyone from altering those words? I mean, you are infinitely powerful but that's too much effort?
The moon was many times more important to them than black holes.
Really? I bet if you described to them that there was something out among the stars that was capable of destroying everything they knew in the blink of an eye without any care or concern or remorse, they would be a lot more interested in it than the moon.
And the Bible's purpose is moral, not to "advance medicine".
Is not advancing medicine a moral good? I'm sorry, do religious texts not contain medical advise?
The purpose of the creation story in Genesis is to establish God's authority as creator and ruler of man, not to teach science.
Really?! Is that why there's so many versus on what you can and can't eat and what is clean and unclean? Take Leviticus 13:2-5 for example:
2 "When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a bright spot on his skin that may become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. 3 The priest is to examine the sore on his skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is an infectious skin disease. When the priest examines him, he shall pronounce him ceremonially unclean. 4 If the spot on his skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to put the infected person in isolation for seven days. 5 On the seventh day the priest is to examine him, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to keep him in isolation another seven days.
So God is going to tell us how to quarantine but not how to use make and use soap? That above passage is about morality and not put in there to save lives?