Creationists believe that the bible is hard truth, and that the world was created in seven days starting (or finishing?) on 23rd October, 4004BC.

There’s a slight problem with that. Go and look for evidence of contradiction in the bible. You will find website after website of well-researched (read: people who need to get out more) quotes seemingly contradicting each other.

Now consider a poem. A massive poem – the sort of poem that would fill a big thick book. Now have it written by lots of authors. Do you think it might contradict itself in places? Of course it would!

If you look at groups 1 and 5 of the previous post, I think they both need to see the bible (or qoran, or any other religious text) as a meditation rather than a book of facts. Simply reading the bible with a view to seeing what you can learn from it would be preferable to putting in hours of work trying to prove or discredit it.

“And then X spake unto Y saying… ABC, and Y bonked X over the head”.

Oh? I wonder why X said that to Y. And why did Y bonk X over the head? Ah… yes… I remember when I thought about saying ABC to someone, but didn’t. Well, that was a close one, they might have bonked me over the head if I had. Hmm… yes, looking at Y’s point of view in the the story, they would have been justified too. I’d better be extra careful in future if I find myself about to say ABC to someone.

Just a thought.

The next post, coming shortly will be about hats.