The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

A large portion of the Bible is simply historical....not much of a purpose for the Book of Numbers in my life today.

Not necessarily very reliable history but sure. But in the context of what I'm talking about, so what? Herodotus is in the same boat of being unreliable history and a lot of moralizing, but nobody is telling us that modern zoology must be a hoax or a cover-up because since Herodotus reports the existence of unicorns they must exist.

If you don't feel that there is scientific controversy over evolution. That it would not be appropriate to teach ID or creationism as valid alternative theory in science classes, then your view of the Bible isn't necessarily what I'm talking about. But if you think those things then there are still millions of fundamentalist literalists in this country who do. And they're the ones I'm worried about and the ones pushing the bill in Louisiana I was responding to.