• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      It’s interesting because even my parents who are quite religious think it’s stupid.

      There was a short story written by Terry Pratchett as a sort of tie-in for philosophy book. In the story Charles Darwin writes his famous work but it’s still with the view that God exists and evolution is just a method by which God achieves his goals. Anyway the point is made that everybody likes the work because the scientists get to acknowledge that evolution exists, and the church gets to keep God, and all they have to do is throw away a bunch of myths that no one ever really believed anyway.

      That’s how I think a lot of the more moderate Christians think about the ark. It’s clearly just a story, trying to claim it actually happened is ridiculous and just make the religion look stupid. But then you get all these creationist types who come along and claim that the Bible is 100% true. I think the church rather despairs of them really.

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      Who planned the stag party?

      That… sounds incredibly lame.

      Like.

      If I were the groom and my friend planned that. We wouldn’t be friends…. Even if I were still Christian…