Re:Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry
by tyri_kai_psomi on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:57PM
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As the twitter thread notes, he seems to have gotten some of his historical information about ancient Mesopotamia from a website called historywiz (https://www.historywiz.com/flood.htm), which I suppose is good if you are writing a 8th or 9th grade paper on the topic, but not a book.
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Re:Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry
by Shorel on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:52AM
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Interesting and informative.
However your previous remark about Richard Dawkins opening up a Bible is a bit worrying.
It is obvious that the missing historical information is not in the Bible, and that remark can be interpreted a bit like the point of view of Jehovah witnesses, that all you need to read is the Bible.
Re:Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry
by zaque1213 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:49PM
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I think their statement about Dawkins’ apparently having never opened a Bible was in regard to his theological understanding, not historical.
Having read Dawkins, my primary critique of him overall is that he regularly demonstrates a willful ignorance as to what religious people actually believe. He’s content to attack straw men and not the propositional truth claims at the heart of religious belief.