*Does the reality that the Bible contains factual errors invalidate the Christian faith?*

It does invalidate the faith of people that believe the bible is correct no matter what. Of course the strength and purity of one’s faith says nothing about the quality of what one has faith in. And then you get to the sticky question of where does faith end and delusional insanity begin?

Philosophicaly, that is the role of science: not to tell us what is “”Truth.” But to set forth a proceedure by which people can come to aan agreed upon consensus of what is “real”. To find an agreed upon factual existence so that we don’t all live in our own little worlds in our skulls seperate from everyone else.

I say the sky is black, you say it’s green, who is right? Who is telling the Truth? Both or neither. What we can do is say that it reflects light of a certain wavelenght and that the vast majority of humans when exposed to that light wavelenght call it ‘blue’.

The problem is there are people who are unwilling to join in a consensus, that are unwilling to accept anything but their veiw, without compromise and in total. I would submit that that would make a good definition of insanity.

Of course that definition makes most of the “religious right” insane, which maybe what they are really afraid of 😉

BTW: There is actually a movement afoot and it has graduated a number of people already to have “true believers” deliberately set out to get degrees in ecological and biological sciences so they can oppose science from within. I dunno, it seems to me the same sort of person that can spend 4+ years in university studying something they believe to be false, in effect living a false life…. is the same sort of person that can fly airplanes into skyscrapers.