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But if Tom Bombadil pre-dates even the Valar, then he doesn't really fit into that Biblical narrative.

The biblical Flood came to mind, but this date makes it older than humanity (2.5 million years, says Wikipedia).

Hartnett has not made much, if any, headway with mainstream scientific publications, probably because he is a Biblical Creationist.

But honestly, appealing to biblical authority is fraught with oppositions that focus on the numerous inconsistencies in the bible.

And there is no doubt in my mind its an evil, perhaps not biblical, but a vast and greedy, sickening selfishness.

American Evangelical style biblical literalism is a heresy of the modern era - hardly a sign that scientific knowledge is encouraging progress.

So, when that biblical text was written, who did peer review on that text?

Since we're talking about the devil: The biblical standard for acceptable collateral damage is kind of interesting.

When this was announced, there was a literal, biblical gnashing of teeth.

This is the justice described in those voluminous biblical or other laws.

Maybe that idea violate some persons understanding of some biblical text somewhere because somehow humans happen to be responsible mucking up a whole planet.

Or, to give a somewhat more Biblical example, so was war.

> "appealing to biblical authority is fraught with oppositions that focus on the numerous inconsistencies in the bible." Amen to that.

As "creationism" is a term most often associated with a specific interpretation of Christian faith, it sounds like you are thinking only of Biblical creation, and not the general category of creation myths.

Then he realized that his entire work up to that point was "a house built on sand" and that for example trying to prove the existence of god basses on biblical teachings was pointless.

I view gender as just as arbitrary a hindrance as race, especially given that the "Biblical definition of marriage" also dictates things like how one should treat their sex slaves.