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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Aban Rune: [qb] Well, no. At [i]best[/i], it's an inspired collection of writings. At [i]worst[/i] it was written by cactus-juiced nomads.[/qb][/QUOTE]Sorry, I meant in the context of a document of the universe as a physical reality, not the spiritual aspects. I should have been more precise. Not that this or other works of creation myth are totally without merit. As I recall the ancient Greek creation myth read as being surprisingly close to some of the early universe/big bang type theories. If you can put the anthropomorphising aspects out of your mind. Though to me it just lends credence to the idea that some ancient civilisations were more advances in terms of astronomy and mathematics than we might think and fragments of that lost knowledge was passed on through stories and myth, though not always in the original context. Not that I'd apply that to Genesis as a verbatim interpretation of something that actually happened, as it's a story that's as much about why women are flawed, untrustworthy and inferior to men as it is about how the world was created. [QUOTE]Originally posted by HopefulNebula: [qb] And it's also just as presumptuous to assume that we'll be able to recognize life as intelligent, or even alive; their form or methods of communication might be totally different from what we expect. Who knows? There could be a hyper-intelligent shade or twelve of the color blue out there. [/qb][/QUOTE]To paraphrase Arthur C. Clark, it's hard enough finding intelligent life on Earth. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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