Ok, here's a question: I can see what a believe is, like "despite I know for a fact that my body is going to rot in my grave, I believe in the resurrection of the flesh". But How can you "explain away" against evidence?
Being Christians means to believe (among a host of other things) that the world has been created by God, and not (1) that it has been created in a specific way or (2) that Gen 1-3 are "literally" (whatever that means) true. Now, although one may say that this means all Christians are Creationists, I'd insist that there is a difference between serious interpretations of the Bible and the pseudy-scientiffic crap that usually goes under the name "Creationism".
After that pointless "what if" debate is over some of you might be interested to know that there is a functional replica of the Z3 in the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich. It's quite cool to listen to the 5Hz Clock and "hear" it calculate. See http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstell/dauer/info rm/infor3.htm at the bottom of the page (it's in German, sorry).
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Ok, here's a question: I can see what a believe is, like "despite I know for a fact that my body is going to rot in my grave, I believe in the resurrection of the flesh". But How can you "explain away" against evidence?
Agreed. Still reading the Bible "as-is" implies interpreting words into meaning.
You may have more confidence in my subtlety, buddy ;-) I believe there is no such thing as "reading literally".
Being Christians means to believe (among a host of other things) that the world has been created by God, and not (1) that it has been created in a specific way or (2) that Gen 1-3 are "literally" (whatever that means) true. Now, although one may say that this means all Christians are Creationists, I'd insist that there is a difference between serious interpretations of the Bible and the pseudy-scientiffic crap that usually goes under the name "Creationism".
Creationists not Christians. Though the Creationists want to make you think so, that's still not the same!
After that pointless "what if" debate is over some of you might be interested to know that there is a functional replica of the Z3 in the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich. It's quite cool to listen to the 5Hz Clock and "hear" it calculate. See http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstell/dauer/info rm/infor3.htm at the bottom of the page (it's in German, sorry).
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