Genesis 2:19

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At 12:54 AM 1/31/99 -0500, Jason Carter wrote:


>CARTER

>What remaining issue? The issue was whether or not a contradiction existed.

>It did not. 

>


TILL
I finally took the time to read Turkel's cut-and-paste job.  No, wait a
minute that isn't exactly right.  It's more of a plagiarism job than a
cut-and-paste job.  Turkel follows his usual route of presenting himself as
one who knows all about nuances in the Hebrew language, but my 28-part reply
to his attempt to explain away the inconsistency in 2 Kings 10:30 and Hosea
1:4 elicited an admission from him that he is not knowledgeable in Hebrew.
Hence, we can only assume that all of his talk about what this word and that
word in Genesis 2 really meant is merely undocumented comments that he is
again trying to pass off as his own.

I assume that Carter is the "Christian member of Farrell Till's errancy
discussion board" who "passed on" to Turkel the postings of "the local
thralls of the Grand High Weasel" on the matter of Genesis 2, so I will urge
Carter to help us find out just who the real weasel is.  I'll ask Carter
again to invite Turkel to accept my on-line debate challenge in a forum like
what we have here on Errancy, where EVERYTHING that is said on the subject
by both sides will be posted for all to consider.  Such a forum will prevent
the tactic that is very much in evidence on Turkel's web site, where he
selectively quotes what he thinks he can best comment on and leave unquoted
material that he doesn't want his readers to see. Unless Turkel will do
this, Carter, some of us just might think that he is the real Grand High Weasel.

Before you send this challenge to him again, Carter, don't get your hopes
up.  He has refused this challenge umpteen times before on other issues, so
he will probably refuse it again.  I'll say this much about Turkel.  He at
least has enough common sense to know that it isn't smart to get involved in
debates on biblical inerrancy, where he can't play his "smorgasbord" game.
Other would-be apologists haven't been so smart, and they have gotten burned
badly.  Turkel at least knows that if he doesn't get close to the fire, he
can't get burned.





Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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