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Stuckinthebush

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9. It's all wrapped up in infallibility

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 04:54 PM

Mar 2014

If the central tenet of your belief is that a book is divinely inspired and infallible, then there can be nothing in it that is wrong. So, you spend your energy thinking of ways to explain away the fallacies. So, if your book says the earth was created in 7 days then, by God (pun intended), the earth was created in 7 freaking days! If the book clearly shows the ancestral line from the first man to King David and then, in extension, to Jesus - you have to explain that as meaning that the earth can't be more than 10,000 years old.

More energy and time is spent in protecting these people from cognitive dissonance than would be spent in dealing with the dissonance in the first place.

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Bill Nye comment about how old the earth is... [View all] Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP

DU rec...nt SidDithers Mar 2014 #1

Too gentle Treant Mar 2014 #2

+1 Aldo Leopold Mar 2014 #10

Completely agree PrestonLocke Mar 2014 #14

YEP! AngryDem001 Mar 2014 #25

Actually I don't think gentle has anything to do with it. defacto7 Mar 2014 #26

thats not what it says in a book I found in the nightstand at DaysInn NightWatcher Mar 2014 #3

Man. I posted a reply similar to these last year, and had my comment banned. tofuandbeer Mar 2014 #42

Bill some people NEVER listen to FACTS.. just in what yuiyoshida Mar 2014 #4

It's not what their god says... freebrew Mar 2014 #6

That was Archbishop James Ussher's chronology. Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2014 #8

What would make you change your mind about your belief? tecelote Mar 2014 #16

I always thought that was interesting... yuiyoshida Mar 2014 #18

But, but... HuckleB Mar 2014 #5

Why is belief in a young Earth so essential to some peoples' faith, anyway? nyquil_man Mar 2014 #7

It's all wrapped up in infallibility Stuckinthebush Mar 2014 #9

Fantastic explanation. F4lconF16 Mar 2014 #11

HA! Stuckinthebush Mar 2014 #21

Bigger problem is that exboyfil Mar 2014 #12

Of the three Abrahamic Berlin Expat Mar 2014 #13

The slightest open mind could preserve infallibility even with whopis01 Mar 2014 #22

That does raise the question of just why a creator would wish to fool his or her creations Fumesucker Mar 2014 #30

It only raises that question if one assumes they can understand quite a lot of detail whopis01 Mar 2014 #33

Perhaps you could list a few of those reasons? Fumesucker Mar 2014 #35

No I can't - but that is my point. whopis01 Mar 2014 #41

Their faith is fragile. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #20

Feh. Scientific materialist poo... SidDithers Mar 2014 #15

Isn't someone going to complain about the "intolerance" of that statement? Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #17

Yes, we need to find some way skepticscott Mar 2014 #40

Too many people are trying to accommodate the beliefs of the fundamentalist. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #19

Who am I going to believe, God or Bill Nye? LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #23

A couple of places in the Bible, words attributed to God the father merrily Mar 2014 #24

I get that. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #39

If it were Neil DeGrasse Tyson rather than Bill Nye hootinholler Mar 2014 #45

http://www.notjustatheory.com/ Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2014 #27

Kick! Cha Mar 2014 #28

You will never reason someone out of a position... Frank Cannon Mar 2014 #29

I saw those beliefs in the defacement of a sign in in a state park Martin Eden Mar 2014 #31

Gorgeous waterfalls exboyfil Mar 2014 #38

Middle Tennessee has many gorgeous waterfalls Martin Eden Mar 2014 #43

Lived 10 minutes from Burgess Falls exboyfil Mar 2014 #46

Then I bet you visited Rock Island State Park as well Martin Eden Mar 2014 #47

Every year more and more people are losing their faith. They say by the B Calm Mar 2014 #32

Talk about woo! grahamhgreen Mar 2014 #34

One thing that's never sat well with me justiceischeap Mar 2014 #36

Not you know it is a conspiracy by the scientists exboyfil Mar 2014 #37

Yet, people with these beliefs are driving forces in the Republican party and in our fuc*ed up indepat Mar 2014 #44