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I suppose that's true. It's conceivable you never experienced that, though, so assuming would have been a bad idea. Regardless, it seems you did get my point; that all communication is subject to the interpretation of the sender and the receiver. Even if the Bible is directly inspired by God...

OK, ShaneMan answer me one quick question: have you ever made a post in an online forum that you thought was very clear but someone who read it interpreted very differently than you intended? Or you interpreted a post very differently than the author intended?

Tell that to California.

I should like to think so. He wouldn't be very omnipotent if he couldn't even do that, would he? Three possibilities spring to mind. (note I said possibilities. I'm not necessarily suggesting any of these are true) 1.) I imagine there are things we simply aren't capable of grasping, and the...

And the lower and middle classes make up 98.5% of the population (and subsequently the voter base). Surely they have as much if not more influence on the government? :confused:

I wonder whose interpretation St. Agustine would have us accept rather than our own?

Couldn't the same be said about the wealthy?

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me Doc_Man's points generally revolve around the idea that at some point in the line of communication from God to us today there inevitably is a loss of accuracy. It's unavoidable; you simply can't represent the knowledge of God in limited, human...

If I may say so, that's quite a bold interpretation. Personally, I don't really have a clue what "God-breathed" means. Sure, I could interpret it in many different ways, but I think this example simply illustrates Doc_Man's point.

I'm not saying whether your wrong, but... you might not want to make an educated guess in one sentence and then call it a fact in the next. ;)

In defense of IDologists (tee-hee) who've pretty much been the butt of this thread, I would like to point out the movement is basically born out of a backlash to the sect of scientific thought that likes to decide when science disproves God. When you've got a truckload of scientists barking...

Lol! ...Touché.

And gumdrop rainbows filled the sky every morning! Peoples of all races and creeds would dance together and laugh and sing and play under the gumdrop rainbows! :rolleyes:

Ditto that! I've been out of town. Sorry, sweetie. :(

Woah! Hello, old thread! Reading back through this, it's actually one of the most cordial and interesting discussions we've had here in a long time.

Oh, my God I forgot about that! That's freakin' hilarious!

Maybe it has something to do with clothes shrinking in the wash? The more pressing question is: what destroys laundry detergent? :confused: