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So, the Bible is our infallible guidebook to the past and present? Why is it that so much in the infallible Bible is patently false, cruel and/or irrelevant? Oh, wait, I know this one. It's because the Bible isn't the infallible word of a deity, it is the ignorant, misogynistic ramblings of ancient desert bumpkins.
Oh got it!
History is the key to the past and as for a 'key' to the present, hey we're already here, right?
But just try telling this to the police. The present state of things tells us nothing about what happened. You, on the other hand, were a witness!
It appears that this is claiming it is impossible to know anything about the past through observation, memory, research, or deduction. Rather, the only way anything can be known about the past is through the Bible.
FWIW, he's not talking about Revelation the last book in the Bible, he's talking about revelation the concept, i.e. God telling us what to think about things.
The first time I saw this, I thought it was a joke. Surely, I supposed, such a thing is too ridiculous to be real--just reading the text that says "100% Infallible Account..." made me think it was satire.
Then I looked at where it was from and realized that it was painfully authentic.
Reality seems to disagree with you Ken. In fact, just by looking up at the night sky you can see the same processes happening in other stars that also happen in our sun.
You would have thought that it was important enough to get a mention in your book.
I'm just waiting for Ken to do a Hovind :)
key to the present eh, so i should give the town my daughters to rape, then impregnate them, kill my children and mutilate almost anyone for any tiny offense. Hmmm... doesn't sound right, but hey the bible says do it so i'm off to fuck my daughters.
i'm not sure why people find this one so absurd. every historian uses primary sources like the bible to study history when those sources are available. as to its factual veracity, that would be considered obviously. but a bad source reveals more than no source, if only about the writer. and as to whether we should use the past to illuminate the present, well, "those who don't study history..."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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