| bimmylee said:
So a book written by an agnostic and a vague reference to a psychology quack is the best you can do? As expected. Fact is, no one takes the "bible-says-the-earth-is-flat" position seriously anymore, because there's no solid evidence for it. Kasz and mrstickball have already tried explaining this to you, and now I'm done trying as well. |
The Bibles says the Earth is flat (refer to previously stated Bible verses), you just aren't going to find as much information on the web of educated people who think otherwise wasting their time with myths in comparison to people who have invested their whole lives in these myths. I stated two sources that I recall reading recently on the subject, and you yourself provided one in that laughable response from TrueOrigins. Get out and find more, or just read the Bible yourself. It may be a large book, but it uses language that almost all of us can use. You say that you have to be a Biblical scholar to understand it, you just have to be a Biblical scholar to make excuses for it.
What the Bible says itself is as much damning evidence that any rational person would mean. A small child could deduce that Jesus seeing the entire world from a high mountain means that world must be flat in order for this to occur. An educated person could deduce that firmament (raqiya in Hebrew, meaning a solid dome above the Earth) means that those who wrote the Bible didn't understand astronomy. If I tasked a small child with writing a fantasy book today, he wouldn't make the same mistakes from ignorance that the writers of the Bible made. Why should I believe one ancient book among numerous other mythical ancient books to be true when its writers believed falsehoods that not only contradict our basic understanding, but are considered silly?
Not only is the Bible primitive in comparison to our understanding of our universe, but it primitive in our understanding of ethics and morality. In the Bible, God instructed the Hebrews to kill every man, woman, child, and beast in a city he ordered them to attack, and then gave the soldiers permission to rape the virgins. Though these actions may have been accepted thousands of years ago, today's society consider such actions as horrible.
So I ask you, why should I, you, or anyone believe an ancient book that is both out of date scientificially and out of date morally as the absolute truth of the origins and fate of the universe? You should atleast understand why I, and increasingly so many other people, cannot accept such things.
