tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post6912243432177734342..comments2024-03-25T17:35:02.238-04:00Comments on Debunking Christianity: Philip Davies on The End of Biblical StudiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-39878513133698263532009-07-18T08:22:35.311-04:002009-07-18T08:22:35.311-04:00Dr. Avalos has been a very influential author in m...Dr. Avalos has been a very influential author in my own life. I believe him to be passionate about the truth. His precision with words in order to respect truth is why sometimes I think people interpret him as being disrespectful to religion. But many times I have heard people find offense in his words where I thought Dr. Avalos was merely being factual. His debate with William Lane Craig is an example of this. WLC opens with this incredibly shallow (in my opinion) swipe at Dr. Avalos. I went back and listened to the debate WLC based his argument from and I don't believe WLC was at all justified in his interpretation. For me, this cheap shot on WLC's part sullied himself in my eyes.Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09484481246432964371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-74197082814403606522009-07-17T11:58:21.738-04:002009-07-17T11:58:21.738-04:00Davies statement: “More recently, Hector Avalos, ...Davies statement: “More recently, Hector Avalos, the only non-religious scholar I know of that actually seems to hate the Bible,…” is wrong and extreme in and of itself.<br /><br />I make my secular living in electronics. About a year ago I was in a music store and got in a debate with a salesman who swore that a tube amp has better sound that a MOSFET solid state amp. I challenged him to use an audio spectrum analyzer (an instrument that injects a know range of audio frequencies into the amps input and measures the amount of distortion after amplification at the output). He had no idea what I was talking about, but continued to insist (now backed up by a customer) that tube amps will beat a solid state MOSFET any day hands down (without logic, a both were true believing fundamentalist).<br /><br />Do I hate tube amplifiers? No! … No more than I hate the first spark gap radio. But reality and facts do change and just as the late Robert Funk once said; “We must be honest about the truth.” In such reality, digital Sirius / XF satellite radio is totally out of the technical field with primitive electronics. <br /><br />I first meet Phillip Davies at the 1986 SBL meeting in Atlanta, Ga. in a session where John Hayes and Maxwell Miller were introducing their new <i>A History of Ancient Israel and Judah</i>. I remember Davies comments to Hayes and Miller when they used the phases: “It might be the case…” or “Maybe…”. Davies responded to them “Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t. So what have you said? Nothing! This state of Davies irritated both Hayes a Miller who train ministers at <i>Candler school of Theology</i>, Emory University.<br /><br />Well, I could have told the salesman at the guitar store: “Well maybe your are right. Tube amps maybe work as good as MOSFET amps.” But then I’ve, in reality, have said nothing!Harry H. McCallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08974655354593831851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-85420953441843991142009-07-17T06:18:23.445-04:002009-07-17T06:18:23.445-04:00give me any concrete evidence for the existence of...give me any concrete evidence for the existence of a soul, and come back to me.Jonathan MS Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281228447185474180noreply@blogger.com