This is my first post on my new blog. One instance that I can recall when I had difficult understanding someone was when I had a conversation with one of my friends about dinosaurs. My friend happens to be a creationist and takes every word written in the Bible literally. I happen to be a contextualist and believe when one reads the Bible they have to take into account the context in which it was written. Anyways, one night a couple of my friends and I got into a brief discussion on dinosaurs. None of us denied that dinosaurs ever existed but my friend believed that dinosaurs could only have existed after the creation of earth five thousand years ago as written in Genesis. I couldn't understand any of the logic in his arguments because he always fell back on, "its in the Bible". Nonetheless, we are still friends but I think he has some very strange beliefs.

-Peter