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Columba is a questionable constellation as the story appears where the verses should be removed. I.E. the whole story of the dove was added later. It appears between 8:3-4 when the earth dried and ark rested and again between 8:13,14 when the earth dried up. Is it a coincidence that those who...

It is a good question. The answer is location, location and location. Others who have done research in this area have concluded Draco is the serpent of the garden with Ursa Minor as the Tree of Knowledge. I originally had it that way too. However I discovered a pattern, or a method to the...

BB- The Torah is in part a history book. Many of the events did occur in spite of your disbelief. I do not have to know how Talmud logic worked. That would be one man's opinion pitted against another. What I claim and demonstrated is that they used other people's myths, as indicated by Robert...

The serpent is in several star formations, Draco, Serpens, Hydra etc. It is in Hydra where the serpent of the Garden of Eden existed. Why they chose to make this the serpent, I do not know. They simply did. Actually both Jericho and Ai were destroyed between 2300 and 2000 BCE. The stone walls...

Ancient cultures grew up around the control of religion. There was no separation of church and state. I am confused as to what is an "atheistic principle." Being an atheist, I for one have never heard of such a thing. There are universal rights and wrongs recognized by all cultures, which have...

The problem with Rohl as is with many revisionists is they assume the classic Bible time line is correct and attempt to conform or condense other civilization's history to suit it. Rohl, Velikovsky, Hicks, etc. have some good information in comparisons. However they assume the Bible is written...

The Chaldeans were famous as astrologers. My theory on the Kabbalah that it is only in part correct. After the Roman wars, many Jews abandoned the mystical aspect of the texts since their prediction of victory was hopeless. Some of the ideas were handed down orally, but many details were lost...

The idea that Jesus was same substance as God was a major controversy. People were horribly murdered over the topic. Once Constintine made the decision, various texts were destroyed which claimed differently. The texts of Matthew and Luke were altered to reflect that belief. The trinity ended up...

You lost me Faryal, could you make your barber female and topless. I would rather believe in that barber.

I went to a Baha'i meeting in Denver many years back. They struck me as Unitarians on steriods in the way they accepted all religious beliefs. They claim religion and science do not contradict. I asked if they believed in "miracles", which they did. I pointed out that a miracle, by...

I agree with you Bob that extrodinary claims requires extrodanary proof. I say we should start with the talking serpent in the Garden of Eden. BB-Since when are the Old Testament texts -your texts. I see no ownership in them. I may do with them as I please. Bob- I have completed a book...

What is good about "Hebrew Myths" is that in addition to presenting the stories, it also compares the tales to other religions or myths in the footnotes. This makes for a more interesting read when one can compare the castration of Noah to that of Uranus. It compares the similarities of Iapetus...

To put it simply: I do not believe in any way shape or form in horoscopes.

The is a good collection of midrashes in the book "Hebrew Myths" by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai

Thresher- I started with the works of Massey and Bullinger, Bullinger however is mostly concerned with the NT not OT. I used his work on the translations of the Arabic names of the stars, however I found his interpretations incorrect. He even got the 12 tribes incorrectly identified. The...

You really didn't say anything specific and just made general comments. As far as Translations- I use a Hebrew Lexicon. I use the exact Hebrew translation as pure as I can. Interpretation of texts? That is what the whole thing is about. Mistake in Tranferring my knowledge to paper? This...

The name list was to demonstrate atheists do not sit around and bash Christians, they have their own lives. Most atheists do not promote atheism as the list projects. I am not sure where you get that idea everyone on the list promoted atheism. Nor was this just a list of "good' atheists as...

Pseudonymous, I have serious doubts that you are or ever were an atheist.[Edited] To ask what good do atheists do for the world? What good did Edison, Einstein, Burbank, Shakespeare, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, HL Mencken Simon Bolivar, Mary Wollstonecraft, Napolean...

You make this claim. "well... off hand, i can think of several other explanations that would be equally valid. one of which, of course, is that it is exactly what it says it is. " I ask you to back it up.

How can I give you an interpretation of evidence without giving you evidence?