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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: talk.origins,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Creation, Evolution, and Flood
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 13:13:41 EDT
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In article <1188@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> speter@athena.mit.edu (Peter Osgood) writes:
>
>So why have a Bible?  Simple.  Moses, who was responsible for at least
>five books, and his decendants, knew that his followers and decendants
>needed a guide for living daily life.  They needed something to refer
>to give them some insight into how they should act.
>
>So would not a better arguement for "the flood" be why rather than
>whether??
>

Yes, of course.   The United Church of Canada describes the Bible
as "the only infallible rule of faith and life" -- I believe other
Protestant, especially Presbyterian, churches use similar phrases.
Nothing at all in there about being an infallible textbook of
science or history!