Hi Toni,

Well, under Burma, yeah, but around what's now Greece, it was snakes and Cosmic Nothingness. What's now Mexico was created by a bird.

In one place in Genesis, the world was just earth, desert (the Arab Option) until the Cosmic Thing created water. In another part (we could call it the Mesopotamian Option), the world was all water until the Cosmic Thing created bits of land. A chacun a son gout.

But of course, we know now that the world is flat, you only have to look at it. Flat as buggery. The sun comes up, the sun goes down: easy. We die from spells. Babies are born under cabbages. Who needs science ?

Cheers,

Joe

Tony Lavis,

There are four elephants to be taken into account as well (named Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen)

Yeah, Poirot, but under THEM, like Toni says, it's turtles.

“Om?”

“What?”

“The captain just said something odd. He said the world is flat and has an edge.”

“Yes? So what?”

"But, I mean, we know the world is a ball, because . . .

The tortoise blinked.

“No, it's not,” he said. “Who said it's a ball?”

“You did,” said Brutha. Then he added: “According to Book One of the Septateuch, anyway.”

I've never thought like this before, he thought. I'd never have said “anyway.”

“Why'd the captain tell me something like that?” he said. “It's not normal conversation.”

“I told you, I never made the world,” said Om. “Why should I make the world? It was here already. And if I did make a world, I wouldn't make it a ball. People'd fall off. All the sea'd run off the bottom.”

“Not if you told it to stay on.”

“Hah! Will you hark at the man!”

“Besides, the sphere is a perfect shape,” said Brutha. "Because in the Book of-

“Nothing amazing about a sphere,” said the tortoise. “Come to that, a turtle is a perfect shape.”

“A perfect shape for what?”

“Well, the perfect shape for a turtle, to start with,” said Om. “If it was shaped like a ball, it'd be bobbing to the surface the whole time.”

“But it's a heresy to say the world is flat,” said Brutha.

“Maybe, but it's true.”

“And it's really on the back of a giant turtle?”

“That's right.”

“In that case,” said Brutha triumphantly, “what does the turtle stand on?”

The tortoise gave him a blank stare.

“It doesn't stand on anything,” it said. “It's a turtle, for heaven's sake. It swims. That's what turtles are for.”

- Small Gods, Terry Pratchett

Loudmouth,

Notwithstanding that the elephants are integral to the Grand Design....one imagines a Disc-shaped world would slide straight off a giant turtle's shell in the normal course of events.

Thanks, Toni : )

RationalRazor,

You stated: 'Your argument is that the historicity of Jesus proves the "accurate content of Christianity"'.

In which post did I make that statement?

Spencer