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From: ds0007@medtronic.COM (Dale M. Skiba)
Subject: Re: BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS and Archer
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Jenny Anderson (jennya@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:

: medtronic.COM (Dale M. Skiba) entirely missed my point in my previous
: posting, in which I wrote:

: : firmly on the western coast of the Med.  You can bet IUm gonna keep this
: baby

: >My my my, such double standards.  You neglected to give any primary sources
: >for your book,  _Encyclopedia of the Bible_.  Are we to expect that source
: >to be as unbiased as the other sources...  MR. Butler *DID* give at least
: >one source, you have given none.

: REPLY

: It was a JOKE.  The Readers digest _Encyclopedia of the Bible_ was the most
: outrageously bogus *authority* I could dredge from my shelves.
: I was trying to point out that going to some encyclopedia, rather than
:  original or scholarly sources is a BIG MISTAKE in procedure.  I am glad
: to note that Butler and DeCesno are arguing about substance now,
: rather than about arguing.

I guess the joke was on me...  I am so used to seeing bogus stuff
posted here that I assumed that yours was necessarily the same.

--
Dale Skiba
