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MF: Do yourself a favor. Read before attacking. Post-Cognitive Criticism is Bankrupt. Make sure that the point you are so eagerly trying to refute is actually the point being made by the Poster. Anything else is Tedium THANK YOU, MF, FOR POSTING. CW Thank you for your advice, but I fail to see the ...

You speak of honesty but I have never raised the question of peer-review with Acharya. Not once. Peer review doesn't exist among scholars. And the earth is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. As someone who undergoes peer review, I can speak for that. If you want to be a flat-earther, that's...

Common misconception but in fact, according to the Talmud, the money changers were essentially unpaid volunteers compensated only for coinage lost to breakage. The Mishna Shekalim 1:3 documents exactly how every shekel was sent, how skimming was prevented (lots of witnesses for all handling and tra...

neilgodfrey wrote: You speak of honesty but I have never raised the question of peer-review with Acharya. Not once.

Peer review doesn't exist among scholars.

Mental, Catholics are not required to believe that Adam and Eve were real persons, only that there were two humans from whom we are all descended. I don't believe in the Biblical Adam and Eve, Noah, or most of the early patriarchs. What is this about "required to believe" ? Do you people ...

You do realize that the synoptics are dependent on each other, right? Also, the gospels aren't completely consistent. For instance, Jesus was crucified on Friday according to the synoptics, but on Thursday according to the Gospel of John. No, they're not. Each of the gospels was written independent...

On Lion of the Blogosphere : http://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/americans-and-climate-change/ The NY Times asks why “Americans are far less concerned about global warming than people in the rest of the developed world.” This statement is laced with arrogance, supposition and error...

Choices can have no moral relevance without moral knowledge. Having said that, free will is a logically incoherent and regressive concept anyway. You're misinterpreting the tree. In Genesis 1, God built "all knowledge of good and evil" into the stars and creation. The tree added nothing. ...

I think there are probably (at least) two separate ideas about the burnng bush. Idea 1: Christ literally met with Moses at the burning bush. Idea 2: The burning bush is a type or symbol of Mary bearing Christ in her womb. Andrew Criddle When Jesus mentioned the burning bush, how come neither of the...

Eusebius gives 2016 AA, which seems to be about 1 BC in our reckoning, in the 194th Olympiad, for the birth of Christ; and dies in year 18 of Tiberius, AA 2047, about 31 AD I think. http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm I don't take Eusebius to be a valid source for many r...