[david38]

Not hypocritical.

Religion isn't science. It's fantasy. Physicists vs chemists would be be a scientific debate.

A proper conservative creationist debate would be vs Roman paganism.

X isn't perfect so Y must be the answer is the oldest false choice gimmick going. I can easily point to how shitty everyone practices their religion and prove it's fake that way too.

Seriously, how many people are reading the Bible? Some. The best available translation? Fewer. The original untranslated text? Very few. It's the actual word of God and you don't think it's important enough to read in the original? Please. Give me a break.

Let's set that aside though. Let's just go for the big stuff. Is Jesus cosubstancial with the father? You would figure something that profound would be easy to ask God himself. How this question was resolved is proof of the popularity contest that was / is the Christian church.

Science keeps chipping away at the Bible. The reverse doesn't happen. Just because X doesn't solve everything perfectly (and doesn't claim to) doesn't mean Y is anything less than fantasy.

[ableton]

Great question about translation. I read "Youngs literal translation" which is much more accurate. And I frequently use the Blue Letter Bible website which has an amazing resource to help you understand the Greek/Hebrew meaning of any word!

Science doesn't "chip away at the Bible". Bad science does though. Anecdotally I think what happens is that people want to have sex outside of marriage so they accept bad science to validate their choices. Sex hormones make people do really irrational things.

[Xoros]

Isn't irrational the base of the religion (in opposition to rational : "based on facts and reason, not emotion" according to Cambridge dictionary) ?