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A couple of clarifications … although it’s only in the interest of truth so I dont expect more than two or three to be bothered.
IA : I said that I hadn’t expected you to engage … and you hadn’t. I didn’t say that you weren’t intelligent enough. You never do engage. If you did then you would recognise the point I made about the Bible being a library of books and genres. Then you wouldn’t have made the shallow assessment that I don’t believe in everything in the Bible. Whether you are intelligent enough, not honest enough or just too lazy I don’t know. But its a bad habit.
Ni : You seem pretty miffed at being misrepresented … welcome to my world. And to that of absent friends. (As an aside, before I explain why I think you mistake me, is it only when you are affected that you get upset? How about holding it as a general principle and calling it out whoever is the target?)
I agree that you didn’t say that I dismissed Galileo, hence the ‘presumably.’ I actually don’t think that you do think that. But you DID say, and I presume it was part of your case for challenging my beliefs:
‘ Sorry JI, but the creation is a simple story to satisfy simple people…. And to think Galileo was deemed a heretic! ‘ (From that I also infer, at the risk of further outrage from you, that I am simple. Other sentiments expressed were that its all ‘nonsense’ and for the ‘unintelligent’ and ‘superstitious.’
On your later post you made the same generalisation :
Because in the Abrahamic religions the universe is earth-centric. “Heretics” were burned at the stake for declaring that the Earth orbited the Sun.’
Then you capped it, despite my having stated clearly what I believed about the age of the earth ‘That and the fact that the age of the Earth is set at around 6-7,000 years.’
If these weren’t deemed to be relevant to ME as a professing Christian and defender of the veracity of the Bible…then what WAS your point?
As for Gurney. When you ‘flail’ instead of engaging in respectful discussion and continue to take no responsibility for what you post then there’s no way to reasonably move forward.
You rest your case!! In order to do that ..you first have to make one.