Archaeological Work in the Sinai

Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:19:32 -0400 (00893643572, 19980426210849.AAA13862@briandea) 


> DICK

> >Not brief enough. Why would any logical, sane,

> >rational person imagine that the biased opinions

> >of a fool written in a book might somehow on faith

> >become "evidence" of reality? Can no one on this

> >list reason?

> 

> >BRIDEAN

> >Is the Bible a book written by biased authors?

> 

> DICK

> Some were, some weren't. Does bias change reality?

> 

> BRIDEAN

> So since you are a logical, same, rational person, why would biased

> opinions written in a book, somehow on faith become "evidence" of

> reality.  And you yourself admit that the Bible is such a book.


DICK
I am NOT logical which does not mean illogical --
it means NO logic, not false logic. No opinions
written in a book are evidence of reality. Wherever
did you get that idea? 

BRIDEAN
You yourself said, and I quote, "Why would any logical, sane,
rational person imagine that the biased opinions of a fool written 
in a book might somehow on faith become "evidence" of reality?"

However, even if you defend the above by saying that the people
of the Bible were not fools, opinions are only opinions and can't
be evidence of anything.  


DICK
This is the fallacy of strawman if you're trying to assign 
it to me. I DON'T ADMIT ANYTHING. I state that the Bible 
is infallibly true, but that does not imply that it
is evidence of anything. 

BRIDEAN
If truth has anything to do with reality, and the Bible is infallibly true,
then it must infallibly have something to do with reality.  As such
it would be evidence of how reality operates.

DICK
You badly misuse common
words, which is the fallacy of equivocation.

BRIDEAN
This is coming from a person who defends Catholicism, yet says that
everyone is saved, Jesus was not God, ect.  You badly misuse the
Catholic faith.

==

Dick Jones, JD, MD
Physician-Attorney (retired)
Founder, Philosophy of Universalism
http://www.iland.net/~box191/phil2.htm


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