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		That accounts for their strong emphasis on seeking conversions through intense missionary activity and their reticence to participate in interfaith dialogue.
		Evangelicals also tend to be biblical literalists who read the Bible as fact, rather than a mix of history, moral lessons and metaphors.
		They see the promised return of Jesus in the Book of Revelation as a real-life prophecy and focus intently on converting others before the final Judgment Day, which many believe is imminent.
	www.religionlink.org /tip_040503a.php (3900 words)

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		For the last one hundred and fifty years, a war has been waged over the historical reliability of the Old Testament scriptures.
		And step by step, biblical literalists have been forced to retreat as more and more evidence is unearthed.
		More, his explanation of the origin of the biblical deuteronomists and the seductive allure of the rival cult of Asherah is among the most amusingly reasonable I have read.
	www.ebonmusings.org /resources.html (11167 words)

	Evolution News & Views: August 2005 Archives
		One of the things we learn in a grade school science class is a concrete way of thinking, a sound, systematic way of exploring the natural world.
		Whether it's a Freudian slip or not it is likely to be a comment that grows into an urban myth.
		In fact, Dr. Meyer was referring to biological origins, not “biblical origins” as mistakenly quoted by the Times.
	www.evolutionnews.org /2005/08 (12784 words)

	The Solar FAQ: Solar Neutrinos and Other Solar Oddities
		This age was troublesome for many; it was too long for Biblical literalists, but too short for geologists and biologists, who could see that the earth and its fauna had a far longer history.
		Physicists like Lord Kelvin did not, however, care about the opinion of either literalists or biologists, so their arguments had little impact.
		But this age for the sun was troublesome also in astronomy; the sun was only one star among many, and if it was assumed, reasonably enough, that all stars worked the same way, contradictions followed.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/faq-solar.html (15805 words)

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