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Article #11084Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Ben Dolan
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:56
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:56
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DanielSan <danielsan@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...
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