On 05/12/2011 05:49 PM, John Smith wrote:
There is no proof that the bible was "divinely inspired", at the present
time, I can't imagine where such proof could be had -- for that a leap
of faith is required ... one I have great difficulty in making, though I
keep an open mind, and looking ...

I am just able to manage, a mind greater than our own is a likely
candidate for our existence.
The first thing the Levantine god said was "Let there be light".
The first thing Aryan Gaia said was :"Oooops!"

The Levantine god is dead because like a stone, he does not change.
Gaia is alive because like all live, She is evolving. She does not
really know what She had in mind at the start when She emerged out of
primordial Chaos, and has been winging it ever since.

That we are here is an accident, but we've been making do and growing
up, and now its time to put away childish visions of a father god.