Sure. That's a reasonable request.Metacrock wrote:you still have not told me how I misrepresented your views or exactly what bothered you about it.
I did say:
... in response to a query about how there can be a forum where a bunch of people skeptically and critically examine the scriptures. How is my comment relevant? It is relevant in that it might be surprising that there is such a forum, if the evidence truly were "overwhelming," as indeed some (various apologists) have actually claimed. Since the evidence does not rise to that kind of standard, the kind of standard on which something such as evolutionary biology is based (about which there is controversy anyway), then it is not surprising at all to find this kind of widespread and reasoned doubt or disagreement.Well, if anyone ever said anything along the lines of 'the evidence for Christianity is overwhelming,' they are wrong.
I did not say anything about this topic (or, generally, about exactly how weak, or strong, such evidence is):
You have assumed something about how much credit is being given based on who was writing (in this case, me). The statement I made in this thread, however, did not make any such claim. That is a different claim, and it should (naturally) not be surprising if an atheist and a Christian theology student differed in their evaluation of the exact merits of the case.Metacrock wrote:The evidence for Christianity is a lot stronger than you are willing to give it credit for being.
I did not say anything about this topic either:
Great. But that has nothing to do with what I said. I did not suggest any such procedure.Metacrock wrote:They don't demand that arguments be overwhelming before they consider them
The rest of what you've said in this thread in response to me is even further removed from the subject ostensibly at hand, which was my original terse statement, about which you don't even appear to disagree, when understood in its original sense. For someone who didn't actually take exception to that statement, you've found a lot of words to get in edgewise.