Re: Evidence of God

"Bob Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Libertarius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > stoney wrote:
> >
> >
> > > >However I would highly recommend Volume 1 of "EVidence that demands a
> > > >verdict".  It is straight forward, and backs up its claims with cross
> > > >references where they are available.
> > >
> > > Quite a few people in aa have read McDowell's "work" and have
indicated
> > > it's nothing but rubbish.
> > > Mr. Lowder has analyzed the book and his findings are at the above
link.
> > >
> > > Whoops, there's a second book entitled:
> > > The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict,
> >
> > ===>More rubbish. -- L.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > It's review is below:
> > > http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jeff_lowder/newetdav.html
> > >
>
> If I were Joy from Middle Tennessee State University I would go ahead
> and read Josh McDowell's book anyway.  If the Atheists feel it is
> serious enough to spend a lot of time rebutting it, then it must have
> some literary value.


????????????
That makes absolutely no sense.
The more people that argue against it, make it more plausable?

BTW .. what evidence do you have that this particuar comic book is drawing
any more attention than the last twenty comic books?




The closer an article or book is to the cutting
> edge of a debate, the more scrutiny it will attract.

Silly claim.
That's akin to saying Rush Limbaugh MUST be on to something because he draws
more flak than the PBS News Hour.



>
> Every new publisher's booklist usually has a book with a "new" theory
> on Christ for example.   A year or so later they are forgotten by
> nearly all.  There may be a bit of a flurry of criticism eg. when
> Barbara Thiering puts out a new book, but soon they are just an oddity
> on a library bookshelf.
>
> But if a seminal work appears then it usually attracts prolonged
> scrutiny.  The above review of MdDowell's book indicates it is worth
> criticising.

Hitler is worth, and has received, a vast amount of critcial analysis. That
is not an indicator that he was right.


>
> So my suggestion is that Joy reads it anyway.  At least then she'll be
> in a position to know what the atheists are contending about.  And
> they can't criticise that motive.

I suggest she compare it to the dozens and dozens of christian zealots other
garbage - so that she might wake up to the fact that it is just "a lot of
noise, signifying nothing".



>
> Bob Crowley.