Do mimsy atheists gyre and gimble in the wabe?

[LEDO]

I did purchase The God Delusion, after all, which suffers from innumerable weaknesses.

Such as? Not that I overly disagree with you on the point, I just wanted to know what weaknesses you saw from a theist's angle.

I can't really comment on Bart Erham that much. I've read the first few chapters of Misquoting Jesus and he seemed to present a few good contradictions that even other biblical scholars agree on (because of errors copying the text, etc). The main problem he has is that since the earliest copy of the Bible is 1,600 years old, there are a lot of errors to be expected from copying copies. As he puts it, "we don't have the copies of the originals; we don't even have the copies of the copies of the copies..."

I skimmed through that copy in Book-a-Million today. It looked like my book "Bible Bloopers: Evidence That Demands a Verdict Too!" that I published a dozen years ago. Not that Bart read and copied my book. He most likely used the same sources. What I didn't like is that Bart's writing seems to pretend he has made these discoveries on his own, when really is simply copying scholars that have come before him. I didn't see anything unique that he had to offer.

The idea that contradictions exist isn't as fascinating as why they were created. Bart doesn't seem to speculate on that point, but rather just catalogs the errors, which to me is a bit mindless for a Bible scholar to do.