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Originally Posted by SOBERMARK
The religion of Christianity begins with the Hebrew tradition. Eygptians as far as we know came after the Hebrew tradition. Of course, they also beleived in some religious things and that again flys in the face of your arguements. See the religion actually gets to decide what their beliefs are, so the Christians religion begins with "and then there was Light". Even the Summerians probably didn't come before Light. And since you claim the Summerians had a religion, then that also flys in the face of your arguement. The truth is that Spiritual Beliefs have alway been with us, and odds are they will continue to be with us.
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Originally Posted by SOBERMARK
Spiritual Beliefs have been with Man since before recorded history. Most if not all these scienctific theories and even some laws go out the window over time. Sometimes it takes a few generations or a few hundred years for the science of the day to go with the wind. The trend over our entire history is with Spirituality. That doesn't mean we abandon science, it just means keeping an open mind as opposed to dogmatic adherance to some theory or law that may be failing is Wise!
You claim that over time, most scientific theories are overturned. You seem to contrast this negatively with spiritual beliefs, which you believe have existed since time began.
My argument is that you are being inconsistent: sure, spiritual beliefs have existed for a long time, but they
also change over time! You're treating 'spirituality' as one entity, as if it didn't consist of numerous splinter-groups and divisions, of which there are hundreds in Christianity alone, but you don't extend the same courtesy to science: you treat science as if it is one entity that is eventually disproven rather than a conglomeration of facts, theories, and hypotheses which are in a continual evidential flux running the spectrum from absolutely proven to completely falsified, with a lot of grey area in between.
As to your belief that the Egyptian and Sumerian religions did not exist until after the Israelities, I can only offer this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_religion. To give you one example: there is evidence of Sumerian religion existing approximately 2,000 years before the first books of the Torah were composed.