While it may be said that I can be naive at times, it's not always true.
But, if being naive leads me to believe that the Bible is fact not fiction,
I chose to be naive.
Don P
-----Original Message-----
From: J Burg [mailto:hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:52 PM
To: don.perrett@verizon.net; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: RE:
Don wrote:
>From: "Don Perrett" <don.perrett@verizon.net>
>To: "ASA Forum List" <asa@calvin.edu>
>CC: "J Burg" <hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE:
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:53:34 -0600
>
>
>While I would agree that there is no direct scientific text within the
>Bible, anything which we discover now should, at the very least, not
>contradict the Bible. So if things are in agreement, it would seem that the
>Bible is correct, as always. Realizing that the Bible was written for
>people
>many years ago, I doubt that God would have intentionally mislead anyone at
>that time. If we today were to talk to a child with little or no scientific
>background, how would we do this. And if 20 years later this same child was
>now in college would he find new evidence which would go against what he
>was
>told in grammar school? So while God did not give them all the details of
>creation, he did not by any means give them the wrong info.
>DON P
>
Somehow that answer seems to me to be incredibly naive.
Hoss
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