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How do you figure?</p>
<p>“religion’s main theme is being against knowledge”</p>
<p>you’re like a ten year old christopher hitchens</p>
<p>and I think the adult hitchens is a moron</p>
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Isn’t he an actor? Or am I thinking of someone else?</p>
<p>Edit: Looked him up, some guy that doesn’t like Mother Teresa or Bill Clinton.</p>
<p>I’m a psych major and if I pick up two more math classes I’ll get a math minor. I’m debating it, but it would require me (a) not taking some psych classes I want to before I graduate, (b) cutting back on research or TA hours, (c) taking classes at community college over the summer, (d) graduating a semester late, or (e), taking 18 credit hours each semester while working as a RA or similar position and preparing for/taking my GRE. It’s somewhat of a conundrum.</p>
<p>i know someone who is double majoring in chem and gender studies. he’s very arrogant, but not smart.</p>
<p>i also know someone majoring in chem and minoring in history. he’s very smart, but not arrogant. </p>
<p>;-D</p>
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Let me guess… Taking “gender studies” courses was his hare-brained scheme for meeting girls?</p>
<p>Weren’t Adam an Eve not supposed to eat from the tree of knowledge?</p>
<p>I guess I shouldn’t have made it sound like all religions.</p>
<p>But I am not taking any book seriously that says 1 man put exert type of animal on a boat.</p>
<p>I am about to lose all credibility, if I ever had any, but you know what is really interesting? Ancient Aliens on the history channel</p>
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Yes, but that knowledge did not represent learning in the modern sense; it was an attempt to be as God, as Man already had immortality, so knowing all would be as trying to be God. Or so the story goes.</p>
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Many of the stories aren’t literal. Rather, there are a lot of parables. Of course, every culture on Earth has a flood myth, so something happened (probably waters rising as glaciers receded at the end of the last Ice Age). But obviously every species was not put on a boat X cubits long and Y cubits wide. What matters is the story and the morality behind it.</p>
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I found the first one entertaining, but after that, they were just so repetitive, it was like they were only slightly altering the first one. I don’t believe what they say, but it’s fun to watch. Or was; History channel showed it so much, I grew bored with it. There were some pretty blatant errors, though, like conclusions that were jumped to, not at all fitting with Occam’s Razor.</p>
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I found the first one entertaining, but after that, they were just so repetitive, it was like they were only slightly altering the first one. I don’t believe what they say, but it’s fun to watch. Or was; History channel showed it so much, I grew bored with it. There were some pretty blatant errors, though, like conclusions that were jumped to, not at all fitting with Occam’s Razor. [.quote]</p>
<p>Yeah they were interesting. It seemed like they could just take stories form the Bible and twist them into aliens doing things that made more sense to me than the stories in the Bible.</p>
<p>Like I said, I am all for the Bible teaching people ethics and junk. But when people start to take it seriously (the stories, not the message), that’s when I’m out.</p>
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What do you mean by that? Some, such as the Creation lasting only 7 days (by Earth reckoning) can be seen as merely symbolic, but I don’t see the problem with believing that there is a God. It certainly isn’t exclusive of scholarly knowledge.</p>
<p>My problem with the Bible is when people pick and chose what is “literal” and “symbolic”. That picking and choosing ticks me off to no end.</p>
<p>“Religions are the most profitable scams on the planet. They’d be a perfect compliment to a business major”</p>
<p>One word: Scientology</p>
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<p>I believe there is a God. I mean, something caused the Big Bang. Or something caused the something that caused the Big Bang, and so on.</p>
<p>I am talking about people actually thinking we came from Adam and Eve, or Noah really put every animal on a boat, or thinking the world is 6000 years old.</p>
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Hm, so are your beliefs more Deistic?</p>
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Technically, everyone came from the same set of early humans, so there’s some accuracy in that. As for Noah… The Bible actually tells a feasible tale, if I recall correctly, in that he is instructed to take very specific animals, not “all animals,” as is the modern reference. Of course, that doesn’t fit well with the bit about the whole world being flooded, unless you assume divine intervention, which is necessary for the story to begin with.</p>
<p>And the Bible doesn’t say that the Earth is 6000 years old. Some people just thought they could do this crazy math where every number was symbolic of this or that, and assumed that the Bible contained stories of every generation and that all the ages were accurate, so came up with 6000 years. Something like a little before 9am on Wednesday, October 23, 4004 BC.</p>
<p>I google Deism, and yes, I guess that is pretty close.</p>
<p>God made science. Science made everything else :D</p>
<p>Plus, people be killings eachother and **** over a book… not feeling it</p>
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People killing each other over anything is screwed up.</p>
<p>God is a man made idea. There is no meaning or miracles besides what is created by your minds imagination. The earth is just a dirtball floating around space which happened to be in the right place to be conducive for life to exist. Religion just offered stories to why things happened until man was able to delve deeper to discover the reasons why. Religion is more irrelevant and outdated than listening to an 8 track player. If one want good parables with emotion and a moral better to go read poetry or prose instead of religious texts. Some religious stories are beautiful and touching but the majority of it is rubbish. </p>
<p>Fence sitters are so funny to feel they have to be PC and defend the sensibilities of other people because of the garbage their parents told them whose dogma came from their parents etc.</p>
<p>^ Someone wants to pick a fight… In a very unrelated forum. How charming!</p>
<p>I’m a biology major and a science education, music, and psychology triple. Not too weird, but the music part seems random enough to most.</p>
<p>^thank you for swinging this back, haha</p>