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Originally Posted by Aminka Ozmun  Otherwise, you wind up thinking that the universe was literally created in seven 24-hour periods. |
How do you know it wasn't?
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Lycan, if you believe that I am ignorant, and committing great evil out of ignorance, and you had the power to simply wave a magic wand and have me magically turn into a wise do-gooder, would you wave that magic wand?
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That assumes I believe there is such a thing as great evil which you can cause others.
Parables are mnemonic devices. They are not a secret code.