Darn... you caught me... I always troll with citations. :)
As much as I dislike him and the political dark empire he represents,
Lerner's unanswered questions loom large.
Lerner (of one of his graduate goons) wrote:
"Does not an attempt to "scientifically prove" scripture open scripture
itself up to the same methodologies by which all data should be tested?
I have observed that -- rather than being a repository of proto-memory or
a wealth of allegorical moral teaching -- scriptural statements, usually
tendered in translation, are simply offered as facts without the high
degree of perspicacity called for in scientific data.
"When science works as it should (and too often it does not), the
qualities of observability, testability and general agreement on
scientific data frees subsequent theoretical development from the errors
of homoioteleuton, dittography, confusions in transmitting or
translation, deliberate fraud and alteration that are found in
scripture."
I hate to admit this but after I looked up all the words I must admit
that he's right.
Sick, twisted and dangerous... but right.
Cheers,
RLT
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