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To: Lane3 who wrote (18467)	7/17/2001 5:16:40 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

Some, for example, believe that the Bible is the literal, absolute word. That type of dogma is alive and well in the world of science. For instance just try an tell a S.African geoscientist that the methods developed for prospection of diamond deposits by the Russians are superior to his own. The Russian relies on geophysics and the S.African geochemical and the economic finds in both areas were flukes by common garden variety prospectors. The history of discovery of both areas credited local big science with the primary discoveries when in fact that is a devious fraud used to perpetuate a myth. Science is not the literal absolute word some of us think it is and I see no consensus.

To: Lane3 who wrote (18467)	7/17/2001 6:06:38 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Some, for example, believe that the Bible is the literal, absolute word. But they way they read the Bible varies over time and with creed. What has always bothered me about that philosophy, and nobody in those religions has ever been able to explain satisfactorily, is why they read the Bible in English when it wasn't written in English initially. Which translation is the literal, absolute word? What if we get a new understanding of the ancient religion? Also, which books of the Bible are literally, absolutely true and which aren't? That took a while for mainstream religions to decide, and even now there's discussion about it. I've never actually run across anybody who really believed that they had to follow the Bible word for word. Even the most rabid admit that the Bible is at places ambiguous and requires interpretation.