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Article #11039Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:41
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:41
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On Aug 5, 7:56�pm, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote: > DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > > > William Jennings Bryan claimed to be an expert on the Bible. �He was > > > unable to answer Clarence Darrow's questions about the Bible. > > > So, it didn't have anything to do with the truthfulness of the Bible > > itself. �It could've just as easily been the Lord of the Rings or > > Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. �It could've easily been a frikkin' > > Mickey Mouse cartoon. > > > It has nothing to do with the truthfulness of the content. �It had to do > > with the expertise of the witness. > > Well, perhaps the child does not understand that Bryan was the > prosecutor of the case, and Darrow the defense lawyer. So Bryan's > inability to defend the Bible's truthfulness really was to expose the > book for what it is, a collection of ancient fairy tales and > superstitions. > > As Darrow put it so succinctly, "We have the purpose of preventing > bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United > States", a lesson that had to be relearned a few short years ago in a > Pennsylvania courtroom. > > The Winn child, here in this newsgroup, clearly hasn't learned that > lesson yet... The reason why I used this example of the Bible being used as evidence in court, Satan, was because I knew that no atheist would deny that Clarence Darrow introduced the Bible into evidence in court and cross- examined William Jennings Bryan about the Bible. Robert B. Winn
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