betiko wrote:Hey, there are creationists who believe in some stuff the nasa says, right?
Although i m pretty surprised, but a spanish friend of mine has turned into a religious nutcase who now believes everything in the bible is litterally true, and that there are some illuminati-mason-jew-rotschild-rockerfeller forces trying to stop us from seing the truth. For him the earth is flat and everything we are told is a lie. Needless to say, we all ask him to please shut the f*ck up and not to bring any of his crap on the table again... because obviously anything you say turns into a circular conversation where you just waste your time. That s the fucking internet that can mess with weak minds.. you can basically find videos of any nutcase theory you want on youtube.
Creationism runs the gamut from "Bible/Kuran" is
literally true to "there is a creator God who made the universe". As I already pointed out the Bible isn't "literally" true, only if you deny the written word and claim "that's not how the universe works, so that's obviously not what it meant." But that is what it meant (the tent conception of the universe), and people have always known that, until the 19th century. One of the major divisions in the early days of Christianity was between the Antiochene and Alexandrine schools of thought. In Antioch, they thought the Bible should be read metaphorically while the Alexandrines thought it should be read allegorically.
Theologically, bible literalism is untenable as well. Like, Jesus spoke in parables about hypothetical people. One could argue that he spoke about literal people, but then that shows that you've missed the point of the parables.
He used to frustrate me because I would show places where he wasn't interpreting the Bible literally yet he would claim that you still have to interpret the Genesis account in particular literally because of the absence of poetry (wrong) and he claimed the literary structure refers to God's rational mind, not man's rational mind in writing that way. But hey, at least he practices chiropractic, a pseudoscience like homeopathy.