Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-28826152-20161221223809/@comment-26119768-20170104142330

@Lysurus

Point 1: the quality of its truth is rather high actually. One instance of this is that Genesis predicted the upper limit of human life thousands of years before modern science (It's 120 years). Regarding it dividing more than uniting, there are around 2.2 billion Christians. That seems pretty uniting.

Point 2: let me use the Catholic Church for an example. Heres the reason: the Church is a slow moving organization. For instance, the practice of baptizing children and infants started centuries ago, but only now is it starting to be considered "normal". The Church will get around to it eventually, just in its own time. And they are getting better with it, the response time is down to a few years I believe.

Point 3: if you don't give someone free will then their actions become neither "good" nor "bad", as there is no intent behind the actions anymore, they just are.

As far as the Ark, I assume it was a big boat. I don't know where you got the made out of a house part. Either that, or it was just the local species he put on the boat, and all the rest fended for themselves.

Point 5: the point was that outlasting doesn't equal superior.

Point 6: the Catholic Church believes that large parts of Genesis are metaphorical or symbolic in nature, since there was no one around to witness it. The Church has also adopted evolution.