From: Jim Eisele (jeisele@starpower.net)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 15:45:21 EST
Hi Blake,
>Interestingly enough, in my experience in academia,
>where people are supposed to be "truth seekers", I am
>continually shocked by the degree to which people are
>simply dogmatic, in the negative, popular sense of the
>term, about their particular subfield or area of
>specialty. Far from being truth seekers, there are
>substantial biases within disciplines that have no
>good basis other than it is the accepted orthodoxy of
>that subfield.
You would think such people would become outdated.
>I think understanding how humans are like this about
>EVERYTHING is part of growing up and something that is
>underscored throughout scripture. It has nothing at
>all to do with Christianity in particular.
Maybe so. OTOH, people need to grow up and admit when
they are wrong. Otherwise, they will die as "children."
>BTW, as I am sure other more qualified biblical
>scholars will explain, there are more interpretations
>of the verses you cite than the one you apparently
>would like to give them. And those interpretations
>are every bit as much within the context of truth
>seeking as the one you would seem to prefer.
I am beginning to think there are an infinite number of
ways to interpret both the Bible and our physical world.
Only some ways are sensible. Any God who can't communicate
clearly sounds more like a human who was just wrong.
Jim Eisele
Genesis in Question
http://genesisinquestion.org
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