[b-hebrew] Academic Debate"
Yigal Levin
leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il
Tue Oct 30 15:19:21 EST 2007
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Academic Debate"
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>
> On 30 Oct 2007 at 8:22, Yigal Levin wrote in part:
>
>>Since none of us have yet recieved direct prophecy from God, we
>> cannot "take on faith" that the authors of the Bible did either.
>
To which Dave Washburn answered:
> This is perhaps the biggest fallacy of all in "modern" scholarship. "It
> hasn't happened to me
> or anyone I know, therefore it doesn't happen." Yes, I know I'm
> simplifying, but that's the
> essence of the argument. And it's nothing but a cop-out.
>
No, it's not. I didn not say that "it doesn't happen", only that since I
have no empirical evidence of it happening, I can not figure it in as a
factor.
Yigal Levin
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