I wrote:
"You can not redefine biblical truth every 50 years just to play catch-up with serious science."

Tim wrote:
"That seems to me what science is doing."

That's right Tim. That is what science does. Because science is the search for truth. It does not claim to be the truth. It does not claim to be the word of some entity that has perfect knowledge. And thus science is free to learn more and change its explanations as it progresses.

But you can not claim that Genesis means one thing in 1706, another thing in 1806, another thing in 1906 and still another thing in 2006 because REAL scientists have proven conclusively that your religion was wrong. Doing as you have done invalidates your belief system.

Either the book is what you say it is or it isn't. Period. For you to change the explanation is essentially an admission that everyone that told parishioners about that passage for the last 1600+ years was a liar. Is that what you are saying? And it is also therefore permissible for someone in 2106 to explain it completely differently and thus call your explanation untrue.

You can't have it both ways. Was the explanation of that passage in 506 correct? How about 1006? 1506? 1706? 1906? In which year did they get it right?


DA Morgan