Funny how all the metaphorical ones are those that are testable claims about the universe… I’m thinking they conveniently became metaphorical at some point!
Actually, who the hell am I kidding–a substantial portion of the US still thinks they’re literal!
Ophelia Benson is a columnist for Free Inquiry and the co-author of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense, Why Truth Matters, and Does God Hate Women?
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Alverant
October 17, 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I asked an apologist how to tell if a passage is metaphorical or literal (are the literal ones highlighted in yellow?) and he got offended.
Acolyte of Sagan
October 17, 2012 at 11:57 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yep, Author does it yet again. Unerring aim, that fellow.
LeftSidePositive
October 18, 2012 at 1:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Funny how all the metaphorical ones are those that are testable claims about the universe… I’m thinking they conveniently became metaphorical at some point!
Actually, who the hell am I kidding–a substantial portion of the US still thinks they’re literal!