>>>>>The Bible continues to demonstrate its correctness alongside scientific discoveries.
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>>>>You said a lot of crazy & ridiculous things before, but this one has got to be the best. There is no way any rational person could honestly believe what you're saying here
>>>>.... unless they have been so brainwashed that the world of talking snakes, magic apples, dead people walking around plus about a zillion other examples, is real to them.
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>>>>Heck your religion won't even admit when they're obviously scientifically incorrect. I think Galileo is a prime example of that one...geeze dude.
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>>>The way I see it, the situation with Galileo (and many other people) had more to do with those people who were in authority at the time than it did with the religion itself. Much has been done in the name of religion, but in many cases you find that the motiviation might not be so pure.
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>>Foolish to think that. Catholic Church apologized to Galileo (who died in 1642) in 1992. Look anything that involves logic or science, or for that matter common sense, - is rejected by the church because the church doesn't want people to have the ability to think for themselves with knowledge of science because if they do then church is laughing stock due to the laughable things in the bible. I would be more than happy to provide you with a list of scientifically incorrect things in the bible but I would not live long enough to compile such a list.
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>I'm apt to believe that the Church had found itself in a rather uncomfortable position politically. It had been promoting itself as an authority of The Truth and perhaps professing a few things that it probably shouldn't have. If they were to admit to being wrong about one point, what other points could they be wrong about? As a political entity, that's not a good place to be. It's not to say I'd particularly agree or defend what The Church did, it's just that I don't really find their response very suprising.

Exactly. Due to the nature of the religion they can't suddenly start saying 'oops gosh we were wrong about that' because then they've started down the path of common sense and logic and science - all of which don't work with this religion (and pretty much all religions). The object of the church then has to be too keep people in the dark and seek followers who, for whatever reason, are willing to void their own common sense. The way they (and the church) go about doing this is of course extremely manipulative and life-controlling. People often think that Fidel Castro traveled to the vatican because oooh he must of found god. What a bunch of crap - duh! the guy went there (as a dictator) to see how the heck such a tyranny has managed to fool/control all these people for 2,000+ years - duh! So what you end up with is a bunch of bozo's running around trying to prevent schools from teaching things like evolution, that the earth is (helloooo) a bit older than 5,000 years and no dinosaurs ever really existed, some dude lived to be like 600 years old and manged to get every type of animal on the planet on his homemade boat, talking snakes, magic apples, etc etc etc etc. Oh and it's also important for the clowns to go out and seek more clowns. And if 2 clowns are married no birth control - that way you have more clowns and thus the church has more money. I just find it amazing that people who are otherwise reasonable, sensible, and intelligent fall for such insane fairy tales. Try to approach one with logic and science all you hear is them saying they're right because god told them so and by the way you're going to hellllll! aaaaahhh!
On the bright side the church's numbers are diminishing quickly - people now days are just too smart to be fooled by such lunatics - which is another reason the church has no choice but to attempt to isolate it flock from the rest of the world (the real world) and try political maneuvers to prevent our teachers from teaching the children.