Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.

[John V]

Logic and reason can lead you to conclude otherwise as well.

Since logic can lead to opposite conclusions, why do you value it so highly?

1. It does not follow that just because people are disabled that they are a drain on society.

2. It does not follow that people who are a drain on society should be eliminated.

I said one can get to those positions through logic, and that's correct. I agree that one can get to other conclusions on the same issue through logic. That seems like a weakness in relying on logic. By itself it doesn't do much.

Some kind of emotion or prejudice (or logic which you didn't include) is required to get to the conclusion that X should be eliminated.

Yes, and some kind of emotion or prejudice is required to get to differing conclusions. Logic by itself really doesn't go far in assessing reality.

Logic is what prompts us to value science and observation in the first place. (I can elaborate this point if need be.)

The fact that you know you need to elaborate on the point shows that logic isn't why people tend to value science and observation in the first place.

There is no instinctive mechanism of the brain which makes us respect the findings of science, we do so because it is logical to do so-- ie. there are good reasons to.

Not sure if this is equivocation, or if you use logic in a very general sense.

Neither is religion. Compare:

"There is an invisible man in the sky, and I'm going to quit heroin."

Considering the amount of material in the Bible, no, "There is an invisible man in the sky" is not a logical comparison.

If you were really logical, you'd consider that, even if there is no god, religions that stick around may have psychological value. It never ceases to amaze me that most skeptics attack Christianity as if it really were handed down by god.

They are citing credible sources,

You don't know that unless you read the source.

and you kind of being dickish by refuting them out of hand.

No, it's not dickish to ask someone on a discussion forum to support an assertion.

It's a bit too much to ask them to research all of it themselves when it takes hours and hours, not to mention a wealth of resources to do so with significant findings.

They don't need to do any research at all. But if they don't, they shouldn't think they know what they're talking about because they read a wiki page.

This is called "publication bias" and it is the direct result of the way academic journals work. There is a movement in philosophy to put a stop to this mode of research, and I support it. Flash in the pan scholarship is being hoisted above genuine boring-as-shit academics, and it's wrong. That being said, it rarely leads to false information. But it does emphasize the wrong things.

How do you know how often it leads to false information? Regarding Biblical scholarship, consider the Q source.It was invented by Biblical scholars with nothing else to do. It's never been found. Yet, many scholars assume it existed.

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Also, see nihilist and wyrd's posts above. The Timothy passage seems to strike them as a Biblical claim of inerrancy.