Re: Science, Evolution and the Bible


Nick Keighley wrote:
jgrisham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

<snip>

As well as being an explanation for things, the bible had to be
popular, because the greatest evil in history is illiteracy and in all
practicality the bible was conceived to be read and perpetuate reading.

I really seriously doubt this. I'm not sure when the bible was first
written
down but I expect the motive was help preserve the text (presumably
previously been an oral tradition). I'd expect promoting literacy to be
well
down the priority list. Shortly after a professional priesthood arose
steps
would have been taken to prevent the hoi-polloi from reading the bible.
The people who first translated the bible into english were hunted down

and put to death. Literacy is a serious threat to an entrenched power
structure. Its not *that* long ago that tridentine mass was abolished
(has it been, entirely?).

Do you have any evidence that the bible was written down to encourage
literacy? Seems backwards to me.


The OP is a literacy test, to be read word for word.

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