Hi Jeannie. I appreciate your wealth of replies but could you have a look at my questions and take a shot at those please? They're in my last post. I totally get the spirituality aspect of things. It's not something that science needs to explain. But science does explain some things, like the fact that the Earth is a whole heck of a lot older than 6,000 years, heh
Do you think it is not? What has lead you to this belief?
Another option, of course, would be not to take any of these stories literally, and focus on what they are teaching us about the nature of life.
But I thought that's what followers of Christ do anyway, no? I understand that there are people out there in the world today who believe obviously false things, such as extreme superstitions or that the sun revolves around the Earth. But I'd find it hard to believe that anyone actually posting on an internet forum in the year 2008 would believe things like: one man held every single living thing on the planet in a boat or that women come from the magical conjurings of a man's rib.
I get discussing the origin of the universe and such. You can't exactly prove that so it's open to a wide variety of beliefs. But most biblical stories are clearly lessons, not real tales. I would have to guess anyone trying to defend most of them (Noah's Ark, etc.) would be continually backed into a corner, using self-contradicting statements as evidence. At least, that is, I'm not sure how I would try to defend such things.
