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Originally Posted by Glenn Dawes
Lester,
I see you have pulled out the 'because the bible tells me so' card.
Based on this I could say the creatures from the legends of the Greek and Norse Gods were real as well because they were written down thousands of years ago by what I consider to be a reliable source.
In your and my case Science would quite correctly ask for independent evidence to back up our claims. And we don't have any.
Glenn
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On the other hand when we read of Leviathan and Behemoth, and we read of St. Geoge and his dragons, the Chinese and their dragons etc.etc, maybe we could be a little less dismissive and concede that though we don't have autographed birth certificates for these things there might be some basis for truth, even if it has been embellished over the years. Same goes for the flood. There is the Bible account, the Babylonian account, even the Chinese, I have read, had their Nu-Wah.
Surely when there are accounts of odd things that span many cultures we need to be open to allowing for the fact that there might be some basis of fact. Lester's reference to Job and Behemoth and Leviathan for example; We do not knowingly have any of these critters roaming around these days so we have no real way of identifying with it or with Job on this point. Is it not reasonable to accept that Job and his contemporaries knew what this Leviathan and Behemoth were?
Why would the writer of the book of Job, when trying to illustrate a point, refer to things unknown and unknowable to his readership? that doesn't make any kind of sense.
It seems to me that commonsense itself is falling victim to evolutionary thinking. Mankind thousands of years ago was a not a group of dumb dim witted apes with scarcely enough sense to get in out of the rain, they were capable thinkers, for example, capable of identifying metallic ores and smelting/ forging metals for tools.....how many of us today could do that from scratch, and with no prior knowledge or experience of these things?
I believe we need to be a bit more open minded in seeking to understand what is what from earlier records.
Doug