What do u think:, is the bible all bullsh!t? Options

[add1cted2f1re]

Ok, we read this story called Gilgamesh if you haven't read it, google it. But basically its about this guy who wants to be immortal, and his dad tells him that one of the gods told him that a giant flood was coming to wipe out humanity.
(sound familiar?)
well... guess what he did? yep, he made a boat, filled it with his family and animals. then, when they grounded, he set out a bird to find land. blah blah blah, he repopulates the earth.

ok... now tell me that doesnt sound familiar.

I think the bible is full of crap. Whoever wrote it (probably a group of ppl) just got ideas from old stories. and dont say that the bible was written before Gilgamesh because Gilgamesh was written in early the BC's (like 2000bc)

anyone care to argue

i dont want to hear all you all calling athesiest and crap... cuz im not .

i believe in... a higher power, but i just think the bible is a bunch of nonsense

[*mipadi*]

You miss the point of my statements. I'm simply pointing out that, in this case, there really cannot ever be a truth, or at the very least, no one is ever going to know it; so a search for a truth is futile.

What is truth, anyway? I don't feel it simply is an epistemological issue, especially not in this case. The truth is not a hard and fast, true-or-false, objective state which you describe. Ultimately, because everything comes down to a single person's perceptions, it can easily be shown that even something that seems concrete like the truth is really a subjective state. On a top like religion, "the truth" can vary--this is compounded by the fact that there's not really anyway to prove a religious belief to be true, so anyone can perceive their point of view to be correct.

I have a friend who is a philosophy major. One night, I left my room to go for a walk. He was taking a break from writing his thesis and smoking a cigarette. He and I started talking, and eventually the discussion veered towards perceptions of the world. I'm a computer science major, and I mentioned off-handedly that I preferred to use math and science to find out the truth. He cut me off right away--"That's fine, Michael," he said, "but you don't want to throw around 'the truth' as casually as that. What is the truth, but the way you perceive the world?"