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Thread #82318 Message #2056029
Posted By: Little Hawk
18-May-07 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: No Dinos in the bible? wtf....
Subject: RE: BS: No Dinos in the bible? wtf....
No dinosaurs in the Bible? Yeah...so? Look, there are also no Japanese in the Bible, no kangaroos, nothing about the Hawaiian Islands, no mention of Antarctica, and not a word about North, Central, or South America! Furthermore there is nothing said about Buddha or Lao-Tse or Krishna, though all of them were well known in large areas of the world when Jesus was alive (or at the time he was reputed to be for those of you nitpicking sods who want to fight with people about whether he even existed or not).
There's a ton of stuff that's not in the Bible. Not a word there about lemurs, trilobites, stalactites, athlete's foot fungus, the color "avocado"...
But why would you expect it to be in there?
Give it a rest. The Bible was written for the people of the time. They weren't interested in any of that stuff I mentioned above (exept maybe athlete's foot?), and neither were the scholars and scribes who wrote the books in the Bible. They weren't going to write about things they didn't consciously know about or care about now, were they?
I don't think so.
The people who presently think the world is about 6,000 years old are a certain fundamentalist splinter group within Christianity, and they do not speak for all Christians. They do not speak for a majority of Christians.
It all got started by Bishop Ussher, just like certain mythical nonsense about Columbus got started by Washington Irving. Some people will always be willing to believe mythical nonsense...as long as it's the first thing they have heard on the matter, and as long as they heard it from someone they trusted.
It was Bishop Ussher's opinion that the world is about 6,000 years old. His opinion is strictly his opinion, and if some credulous people want to go and believe it because their daddy and his daddy and his granddaddy believed it....well, that sort of thing has been going on ever since the first sentient humans crawled on the face of the Earth.
A lot of people believe silly stuff about George Washington too. That's the way it goes. People love a good story.