This isn't a particularly new line of thought... I was taught this in RCIA class over a decade ago. It's nice to see it reiterated in the face of the LiteralistFundamentalistDominionist onslaught of Doom.
I was raised Anglican, and my next door neighbors were Catholic (five kids and all); none of us were expected to regard the Bible as a fount of literalistic scientific accuracy.
The title of the article is misleading, but the concept is old. Is "my love is like a red, red rose" "not true" because the writer's paramour was not a petalhead with a green stem?
Ironically, the article arguably buys into literalistic fundamentalist philosophy- the idea that literalistic scientific accuracy is the only form of truth, and that myth = falsity.
The trouble also being that people confuse truth with facts, in that same fundamentalist vein.
Also, I get tired of seeing the word theory, in its scientific context, abused left and right. NO, people, the creation story in the Bible IS NOT scientific theory, and scientific theory IS NOT "just a guess." That, my friends, would be a hypothesis. Is it Darwin's hypothesis of evolution? NOOOOO. Thank you.
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Date: 2005-10-08 12:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-08 12:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-08 02:29 am (UTC)The title of the article is misleading, but the concept is old.
Is "my love is like a red, red rose" "not true" because the writer's paramour was not a petalhead with a green stem?
Ironically, the article arguably buys into literalistic fundamentalist philosophy- the idea that literalistic scientific accuracy is the only form of truth, and that myth = falsity.
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Date: 2005-10-08 05:02 am (UTC)Also, I get tired of seeing the word theory, in its scientific context, abused left and right. NO, people, the creation story in the Bible IS NOT scientific theory, and scientific theory IS NOT "just a guess." That, my friends, would be a hypothesis. Is it Darwin's hypothesis of evolution? NOOOOO. Thank you.
Er, pardon me. I felt... ranty.
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Date: 2005-10-08 05:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-08 05:57 am (UTC)*smokes imaginary cigarette*