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I also had my most intense and serious contact with religion as a teenager. The only books I got from it were the New American Bible and A Brief History of Time. One I read once and never looked at again, the other I didn't look at for 20 years.
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Thank you for the info.
But for the record, I personally find a mindset forged by a smorgasboard of Heinz 57 philosophers not to my taste.
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I remember perusing Hawking's book when it was newly arrived on the Waldenbooks shelves. Although, I never bought it or read it all, I did check it out from the library once or twice and liked the chapters I did read all those years ago. And I've seen the bio movie they made on Hawking not so long ago (2014?).
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Well, whatever the case may be, thank you for your service as a veteran.
And at least we have Josh McDowell in common on our 'influences' list. That's something, I suppose.
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Maybe. Than again, maybe not. Greek mythology has always been confusing to me. I attempted to read about them, but I found there's way too many Gods and sons of Gods and family members of Gods to keep straight. So I just dropped the project.
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It clear that @Platte accepts the age of the Earth as being 6,000 years as a matter of faith. While, personally, I have no regard for faith I accept it as a proper means for an individual to use to validate their beliefs, for themselves. What I can neither understand, accept, or approve of is the need to denigrate and condemn the methodologies used by evidence based, objective analysis as being "science fiction". There are two things wrong with that approach - first it is based on a seemingly self indulgent rejection of well established and multiply validated techniques; secondly it implicitly disparages the value of faith. I find both these aspects unpleasant.
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Stephen Fry has written several books retelling the stories in his own way .You might like them
I read a few chapters of Heroes .Quite entertaining.
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For your edification, from AI Overview:
While not mentioned in the Old Testament, the descendants of these tribes—known as the Galatians—migrated into Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in the 3rd century BCE. These are the Celtic people the Apostle Paul wrote to in the New Testament book of Galatians.
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