Thread:High King Ithilion/@comment-31308946-20170524212814/@comment-25330335-20170525142842

Also think about how the bible came to us today; A bunch of fragments collected from Monestaries and places like that after the Middle ages (Yes, we do have religion to thank for modern society). Not just a cohesive piece of text. Original drafts would have been done while Judah was in exile in Babylon, and those of course would have been preserved by the Jews until Rome destroyed Jerusalem around 76 BCE. What existed was scattered around during the next 1200 years, rewritten, copied, and translated multiple times, before being collected to the Latin version that would have been used by the catholic churches during the renaissance. Then of course there was Martin Luther who basically got the bible out there in low german for people to read, and from there, it's translated into almost every language on the planet (true bestseller right there).

Basically, the bible has had so much happen to it over so long that I have a hard time believing that it's the word of God down to the last period. Not that there isn't valid stuff in there; There is, lots. It's just not quite so perfect.

The problem with Science vs Religion, is that they are fundamentally different. Science is based on what you can observe, while religion is based on what you believe to exist instead of what you can see.