re: #612 freetoken

Well, technically it doesn’t say that.

I think a better, and more comprehensive, way of looking at this is to accept that bronze age and early iron age human understanding of the world was overly simplistic and served an immediate purpose of unifying society, not actually understanding how our world and the universe works.

That there are people today who want to take this 2500 year old view of everything and claim it is absolutely true is explanatory for why they also, say, hate gays.

The ability to change is a human trait, but we prefer being comfortable and when the two conflict (change vs. comfort) we tend to pick comfort.

It is comforting to creationists to accept multi-millennial old stories rather than to accept modern science.

What I’ve always said is, if God had given us a detailed biochemical textbook explaining life on earth, we might have built a shrine to it, or eaten it, but we wouldn’t have done much else.

A narrative, on the other hand, can be understood by a child, and go on forever.