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When just a lad, Paul Kupperberg's son compared the Bible and Scientology. Given what we know, he asked, which is more likely to be true, an invisible man in the sky, or aliens?

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There's an autobiography of Jame T. Kirk on Amazon.

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The flood (not an original story) sickens me. It's been sanitized. When I was at primary school, it was a cuddly book with a few cute giraffes and elephants looking out to sea. Bullshit! It's a vile story. Drowning or burning must be among the worst ways to die. Could the mighty Jehovah not have simply put humanity into a deep sleep forever? Or could he not have simply transported all those animals to another habitable planet? I mean, he is god, right? He can create planets.

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This raises a question I've brought up before. The Creation of the Universe left the Lord pretty shagged out. Pooped. Had to rest for a day.

But, in order to get around some of those bits of awkward geological evidence, Creationists will sometimes argue that a "day" back then may not have been the same as a day today. Might have been more than 24 hours. Might have been a week. A year. A million years.

So... how long did the Big Guy "rest"? Notice how, after the Creation, God farms out a lot more of the heavy lifting. He shows Joshua how to bring the walls of Jericho tumblin' down, but he doesn't just squash the whole town flat.

So, too, the flood. He "opens" the heavens, which for him is probably about like us turning a tap, but that's pretty much it. He lets Nature do the hard part.

Is God still resting?

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Some try to argue that the first two chapters of Genesis are like a newspaper article. There, the first paragraph gives an overview of the story, and the rest fill in the details.

Of course, this would be as if the first chapter reported a bake sale and the rest was about a murder.

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There is a glimmer of hope in all that, tho. If the Creationists feel the need to EXPLAIN the geological evidence, it means some part of their tiny minds is actually ACCEPTING it. "Yes, those layers of rock DO show more than 6,000 years, but here's why. . . "

It's just a teeny, tiny chink in their armor, but if we keep chipping away at it. . .