> I have asked Gareth for clarification of what he meant, off the list; my
> goal is always to increase my critical and other thinking skills. If
> appropriate, I will implement what He says.
^^
I am flattered, but I would be a poor sort of Christian if I allowed
this to go unchallenged. :-)
> My working assumption is that my being an inerrantist has something to do
> with his comments. Of course, he is not, and my experience is that Christian
> errantist are as critical of us as any atheist. In any case, his words will
> be meaningful to me.
For what it's worth, I did not mean "Matthew is an inerrantist, and
therefore his logic is weak". I have mentioned some specific cases
to him by e-mail.
And, also for what it's worth, Matthew is by no means the only person
on the list who sometimes displays surprising lapses of logical thinking.
I think this is a result of the subject matter rather than an indication
that the list is populated by idiots: it is very hard to think rationally
about something about which you feel strongly, and there's a good deal
of strong feeling about some of these issues.
-- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics, gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England.==================================================================== For help, send a message to errancy-request@infidels.org with the word "help" in the subject or body of your message. To unsubscribe from ERRANCY, send a message to errancy-request@infidels.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject or body of your message.