The fight over Darwin - Teaching evolution in schools

[appolose]

Khuutra said:

appolose said:

Khuutra said:

In what sense is there a limit?

As to the second.... How do you reject it? How can you, as a Christian, justify the rejection of the working knowledge of man? How can you hold to literal Young Earth Creationism?

The working knowledge of man has been wrong many times before, so there is nothing inherently wrong with that.  I hold to literal YEC because I hold to the Bible, and I hold to the Bible because of a philisophical conclusion I have come to.

Actually, I think we've discussed this topc before, haven't we?  If your still interested, you can find my reasoning in the huge debate I had with Finalfan in the "atheist debaptised" thread.

If it was with me, I like to think that I would remember it. I will make a deal with you, though: if you will give me the philosophical conclusion as to why you hold the Bible to b true, I will tell you my (Biblical) basis for rejecting it as a book of literal truth.

It was some time ago, and it ended fairly quickly, so you probably wouldn't remember it (I only did because of a case of  sudden deja vu).

Before I do give you my conclusion, I need to clear up the notion (that many other Christians do indeed hold) of literal truth: I only take the parts that are meant to be literal as literal.  I acknowledge that there are metaphors in other places in the Bible, but I don't think Genesis 1 is one of them.

With that out of the way, my reason for believing that the Bible is true is...

It has been revealed to me, and I cannot doubt it.
See the debate to understand how the heck I arrived at that.