(November 2, 2015 at 11:24 am)Drich Wrote:(November 2, 2015 at 2:54 am)Irrational Wrote: Dismissal is not questioning, Drich. I can post more links but you'll just "explain thier arguments away" as expected. I used to have a similar Christian mindset in the past, so I know it's futile to get into an honest scholarly discussion with you. Tried it recently with alpha_male, and he pretty much proved my suspicions.
And again, you keep pretending I only quoted one guy. It is the bloody consensus. Who am I, or who are you, to question the expert consensus without the required qualifications? If I were a scholar (even an amateur one), and I properly understood the scholarly consensus and am familiar with all the arguments they make defending that position, and through rigorous study of my own found their arguments to fall short of defending their position, then I can go and question them and provide a better position, but I need to first be at their level.
You still think it's not the consensus, go edit out the part I quoted from Wiki then ...
Are you so foolish to think their are not a panel of 'experts' that think the oppsite of what your panel thinks? Do you really think I am a lone wolf crying out in the wilderness alone? Do you REALLY Need to see a list of people who think the oppsite way?
Let's say for a moment both side bring up good points and let's say both side bring up Valid points. How then do you decide who is right?
Your unwillingness to look at what your 'expert' says critically tells me you by faith simply know he is right. Now may I ask is your 'faith' a strong part of your system of belief?
Of course there are opposing sides. You don't count by the way. But do you want to know who are the ones who agree with you regarding Book of Acts being written around the time Paul supposedly died? Christians who think like you!
The majority of scholars do not agree with you. If you believe this is not true, go to Wikipedia and fix that. If I remember correctly, there was a citation there, though. So you may want to explain what that cited source got wrong maybe.
But hypothetically speaking, suppose the debate was pretty much even both sides. Then that means no consensus yet, and nothing for me to go by yet. So unless I know what I'm reading about and have done my own research properly, then remain agnostic.
