It's the nature of the subject. If you want to see people snapped like a twig, try scripted professional wrestling. We underestimate how delicate-sounding the underlying arguments for a reasoned probability* could sound, in many cases, if met with a sufficiently informed, intelligent, and insistent opponent.Well, it was a long time ago, so I don't remember specifically.....I just remembered, at the end of the debate, that somebody who spends their entire professional life studying the gospels, trained at and working at the best universities in the world should have left no doubt in my mind whether the central figure in the literature he studied actually existed or not. He should have been able to snap Carrier like a twig. He did not.How so?
Indeed, I don't know how anyone explains the state of the field without assuming widespread interest and widespread willfulness that often produces elaborate defenses of positions intuited a priori or just eventually sinking to the level of one's own bias, however high-minded the endeavor began.
* Not meant to provoke. Feel free to interpret this as whatever is considered to be such.
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sun May 05, 2024 9:08 pm