[Farrell Till, responding]
> I assume that you are a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.
Well, we don't use the word "professor" so liberally over here. :-)
> Let's suppose, for the sake of illustration, that you should have a student
> enroll in one of your classes who knew everything there is to know about
> math. In other words, you have a student who is mathematically omniscient.
> How many incorrect answers would you expect to find on this person's math
> papers?
>
> Do you get my point? If a document exists that was verbally inspired by an
> omniscient, omnipotent entity, that document, by logical necessity, would
> have to be free of errors.
Yes, if the document is an omniscience examination answer. But what if
that's not its purpose?
Anyway, it happens that this is a very different argument from the one
you made way back when and I replied to. You quoted a lot of passages
from the prophets, saying "Thus saith the Lord", and a few other
similar bits, and argued that this was a claim that verbal inspiration
was correct. Anyway, it appears that we have both mislaid both the
article in question and my response to it, so I'll have to do without
your demolition of my response...
-- 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.