Conklin's Exit

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> TILL

> And do you think that he would exit from the list?  I just received

notice

> that he sent an *nsubscribe command to errancy.  It bounced, because it

was

> sent to errancy and not to majordomo.  Besides, the list is now set up so

> that *ubscribers and *nsubscribers have to receive permission from me via

my

> password command. Everyone knows the reason for this change.

> 

> What I wonder is why suddenly Conklin decided to *nsubscribe.  I sent a

> posting to the list this morning in which I pointed out a BAR claim that

Ben

> Sira in Ecclesiasticus quoted every book in the Hebrew Bible except

Daniel.

> Conklin tried to refute this claim with typical fragmented quotations

from

> "scholars" that claimed that certain passages in Ecclesiasticus quoted

> specific passages in Daniel.  I sent a response that went through all of

> these claims, cited both the passages identified in Ecclesiasticus and

> Daniel, and showed that there is no recognizable relationship in the

texts

> cited.  Now, not long after this information was sent to the list,

Conklin

> tries to *nsubscribe.

> 

> 

> TILL

> Is it any wonder that after an action like this, I have assumed that

Conklin

> wants to leave the list before he suffers any additional embarrassment?

> Let's hope that this experience at least taught him to check the

fragmented

> sources he uses before he quotes them.

> 

> Farrell Till


April

He also left without answering this;



> DJC

> One is supposed to decide on the basis of reason and logic in the 

> application of a sound and thorough exegsis and not start with a 

> presuppositional bias against the work.  Back on the short list you go.


April

OK, reason, logic, AND experience tell me people don't rise from the dead. 
They don't fly up into the sky (without benefit of an engine), males aren't
born without the presence of sperm, they don't walk on water, they don't
make blind people see by putting mud and spit on the blind person's eyes,
they don't turn water into wine without the addition of grapes and the
fermentation process, they don't bring someone who's been dead for three
days (who has already started to rot!) back to life, etc. etc. etc.

So why should I believe those things just because someone wrote them in a
book?


Not to mention 
1 - all the Noah's ark problems I posted
2 - his ability to adapt to underwater breathing, which Terry is ignoring
as well.

What else could we expect?  There are no answers, of course.

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