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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper For most religious people, the Genisis creation story has moral messages and is to be interpreted in manners that meet at least half way with modern science. Remember that modern science still includes various opinions about the original creation, big bang or whatever, about mutliple universes, etc. [/quote] OK, so you are Jewish? I read not all that long ago that it is the generally held opinion of most jewish scholars that Genesis is fiction, based upon some fact. "Moral messages" as you put it, clearly have good value. But there are those who insist they are good christians, insist that the entire bible is the inspired word of god, and who refuse to recognize that mortal man has had a significant hand in muddling up the "official version" to suit particular agendas. Those same people are quick to point out that I am headed to hell for not believing as they do. Your very sensible observation of "is to be interpreted in manners that meet at least half way with modern science. " is based upon good common sense, but does NOT conform to the popular beliefs of those devoutely insistant that the entire bible is the word of God. They (when confronted with realities revealed by advances in science) usually try and climb through some conveniant wormhole, reinterpreting what they have claimed the bible to have meant for centuries, into something new that is in lesser defiance if the new truth revealed by progression of science. They cop out, in other words, to the least possible level that still permits them to cling to shreds of their original concept(s). And, the purpose of my original inquiry was simply in trying to anticipate what that next sell out (in context with genesis' story regarding our singulat significance) is likely to be.. My bet is that they will have to try and claim that god didn't think it was any of our business to disclose his OTHER creations to us, or that his instructions were intened to be specific only to earth, and the very contemplation of trying to apply them beyond the confines of earth is somehow flawed and invalid. That the mistake is in those who try too hard to apply the meaning where it was never intended, etc. A "Copernicus" event, in other words, all over again...just of a different scale.... Speaking of Leviticus, why aren't we adhering strictly to it's teaching? It is part of the bible, so what gives us the right to decide that adultry is a sin, yet leviticus 20:13 can be ignored with impunity?
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