"That's a false dichotomy if ever I heard one. Nobody at all denies that some things in the bible are allegories. And I would hope you would acknowledge that some things in the bible are meant to be literal."
No, that is not a false dichotomy. In this case there are only two options. Either every single word in the bible is to be taken as 100% literal, or the bible is open to interpretation. That does not mean that there aren't parts of the bible that are, in fact, literal. But it means that it is open to interpretation which ones are and which ones aren't.
"However, anybody who says that Genesis 1 and 2 are allegories have some tricky questions to answer. Firstly, where does the allegory end, and literal history begin? Secondly, if it is allegorical, what message is it REALLY conveying?"
Exactly. One must either believe that the evidence against a literal interpretion of Genesis is somehow fake (God planting dinosaur bones to fool the unbelievers?), or that Genesis has a deeper meaning than just a bland historical account of Creation. For those who believe in logic and reason, and who don't believe that God is a deceitful God, it is up to them to discover the true meaning of the allegory of Creation and the relevance it has for their faith.
It is because HTML is so lax that we have the browser support nightmare we're in today. I would trade making it harder for the average newb to make a web page for consistent (or at least predictable) rendering across browsers.
Not to mention accessibility. The vast majority of sites out there are all but completely useless to the blind, or those who require very large print, or who are browsing on PDAs, cellphones, or other small devices.
The new standards are a Good Thing, and if that means gramma can't hand-code her photo gallery page (and you know, there are a lot of grammas out there that do that know) I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
I was excited that I'd finally be able to enjoy Homestarrunner. I still haven't been able to see the Strong Bad jail cartoon.
It got farther along this time, but still no dice. Before it was out of sych badly by the time Homestar was doing his siren routine. Now it made it to the mugshot interlude before I noticed a significant sync problem. It was annoying enough that I couldn't get through Strong Sad's letter.
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"That's a false dichotomy if ever I heard one. Nobody at all denies that some things in the bible are allegories. And I would hope you would acknowledge that some things in the bible are meant to be literal."
No, that is not a false dichotomy. In this case there are only two options. Either every single word in the bible is to be taken as 100% literal, or the bible is open to interpretation. That does not mean that there aren't parts of the bible that are, in fact, literal. But it means that it is open to interpretation which ones are and which ones aren't.
"However, anybody who says that Genesis 1 and 2 are allegories have some tricky questions to answer. Firstly, where does the allegory end, and literal history begin? Secondly, if it is allegorical, what message is it REALLY conveying?"
Exactly. One must either believe that the evidence against a literal interpretion of Genesis is somehow fake (God planting dinosaur bones to fool the unbelievers?), or that Genesis has a deeper meaning than just a bland historical account of Creation. For those who believe in logic and reason, and who don't believe that God is a deceitful God, it is up to them to discover the true meaning of the allegory of Creation and the relevance it has for their faith.
It is because HTML is so lax that we have the browser support nightmare we're in today. I would trade making it harder for the average newb to make a web page for consistent (or at least predictable) rendering across browsers.
Not to mention accessibility. The vast majority of sites out there are all but completely useless to the blind, or those who require very large print, or who are browsing on PDAs, cellphones, or other small devices.
The new standards are a Good Thing, and if that means gramma can't hand-code her photo gallery page (and you know, there are a lot of grammas out there that do that know) I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
XHTML is HTML redone in XML. So XHTML is an XML "language", like MathML, SVG, etc.
I was excited that I'd finally be able to enjoy Homestarrunner. I still haven't been able to see the Strong Bad jail cartoon.
It got farther along this time, but still no dice. Before it was out of sych badly by the time Homestar was doing his siren routine. Now it made it to the mugshot interlude before I noticed a significant sync problem. It was annoying enough that I couldn't get through Strong Sad's letter.
I want my Homestar, damn it! *sigh*
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