Why the Bible? (Religion)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Thursday, September 11, 2008, 20:50 (5915 days ago)

I've largely avoided responding to edinburgh4's posts because they consist of little but quotes from a version of the Bible and his or his pastor's interpretation of them. It baffles me why anyone would base their entire philosophy on absolute belief in this text. It is after all just a compilation of books by various authors and editors. Some of it is literature, poems, biased history and fanciful myth, and much of it written in language now difficult to interpret. - Personally I have greater respect for the philosophical literature that has come down to us from the ancient Greeks. In many ways it is the basis of our modern scientific democratic freethinking culture. - Outside the Bible itself there is very little historical evidence that many of the participants in the stories, such as Moses, David, Solomon or Jesus, ever existed, or that many of the events described there ever took place, any more than did King Arthur or Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes. - The video "Evidence for a Young Earth" is just a regurgitation of some of the usual creationist claims that have been repeatedly answered by scientists. It just seems the creationists never read these responses, and come out with the same old stuff time after time.