tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post7654040341083907959..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Ancient historyRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-30788836317611451002011-01-28T13:50:37.987-05:002011-01-28T13:50:37.987-05:00Mark Twain said: "Few things are herder to pu...Mark Twain said: <b>"Few things are herder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."</b><br /><br />Based upon someone else's logic, Steve example is a good one.ἐκκλησίαhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01011648681141436328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-9381219327099726882011-01-27T08:35:14.730-05:002011-01-27T08:35:14.730-05:00It doesn't attempt to advance the respectabili...It doesn't attempt to advance the respectability of biblical metaphysics. Rather, it simply answers a fool according to his folly. That's a perfectly legitimate riposte as far as it goes.<br /><br />He is, of course, alluding to stock, village atheist objections to the inerrancy of Scripture. I've already dealt with that issue on many different fronts at many different times.<br /><br />BTW, now that I know about your Olympian pedigree, I'll have to be more careful what I say around you lest I find myself caught in freak lightning storms.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-6796021805016292342011-01-27T00:41:44.900-05:002011-01-27T00:41:44.900-05:00How does this rejoinder advance the respectability...How does this rejoinder advance the respectability of the metaphysics of those 'iron-age mystics'? Doesn't it imply that both the iron-age mystics and the 21st Century infidels were wide of the mark?<br /><br />Just to be clear, it seems to me that the main metaphysical options for explaining the world were already being debated in the pre-Socratic period, and that modern science is compatible with more than one metaphysical perspective. So ignorance of modern science does not really count against the metaphysics of those 'iron-age mystics', unless they prove unable to assimilate the findings of modern science.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com