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There was no ark, no global flood, and probably no Noah.
I certainly don't believe in The Flood story as recounted in the Old Testament. It is a lovely myth, but certainly lacking in historicity.
However, there are enough flood stories from the ancient world (Epic of Gilgamesh being just one) that I don't have any trouble believing there was some seriously catastrophic flooding in that region at some point.
Obviously that doesn't mean I believe the Noah story as factual, or believe the entire planet was washed away save for one man's family and his boat full of critters. That's a fairy tale. But I believe a very destructive flood may well have occurred.
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Isaac Asimov
I certainly don't believe in The Flood story as recounted in the Old Testament. It is a lovely myth, but certainly lacking in historicity.
However, there are enough flood stories from the ancient world (Epic of Gilgamesh being just one) that I don't have any trouble believing there was some seriously catastrophic flooding in that region at some point.
Obviously that doesn't mean I believe the Noah story as factual, or believe the entire planet was washed away save for one man's family and his boat full of critters. That's a fairy tale. But I believe a very destructive flood may well have occurred.
I knew that, and you are correct that there have been many destructive floods throughout history, and there will be many more, since people almost always build their cities near water.
Yes. If people studied how a cell divides using the DNA code etc they would realize how complex even the simplest things are, while evolution assumes these things just came out of nowhere.
He's entitled to his opinions, are we now a society that disparages people who speak their opinions? Please submit a list of public opinions that are allowed in the USA so we can all comply with your views.
Are there no other people on the school board? Do the town's citizens and board members not have a say in whether this guys even remains a school board member, much less whether his opinions are blindly inserted into the curriculum?
He's entitled to his opinions, are we now a society that disparages people who speak their opinions? Please submit a list of public opinions that are allowed in the USA so we can all comply with your views.
Are there no other people on the school board? Do the town's citizens and board members not have a say in whether this guys even remains a school board member, much less whether his opinions are blindly inserted into the curriculum?
You have a perfect right to express your opinions, but opinions are not facts and should not be taught as such.
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What does that have to do with anything? Is the Middle East on the Texas Board of Education?
Talk about off-topic!!
Yeah you're correct it was off topic......I should have said Dearborn, MI. Mainly, because people make dumb comments toward Christians and seem to leave everyone else's gods out of it.
Kind of like being chicken little!
Too bad our schools don't just stick to teaching, the 3 R's. This whole religious thing in schools is going to open a whole new can of worms when all religions decide to participate.
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Isaac Asimov
Sounds like he was talking about evolutionists.
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