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Originally Posted by Yasa
Without turning this into a global warming thread; that's a subject that has had extensive, on-going study's revolving around it. Opinions have changed frequently. There must be some reason why the scientific community hasn't recently swayed from their current stance; perhaps because so far this is what the evidence shows?
Like I said, science changes. Just because you haven't seen them change their opinion on one topic recently doesn't mean they won't ever and doesn't mean they're wrong.
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It is where the big money is.
Sam Harris's motivation on the other hand was just being faithful to his faith. It probably helps that atheists are not restrained by any rigid moral code.
Those "scholars" who question the existance of persons or places found in a book that has proven so reliable historically are not unbiased in their judgments either. You've got two camps of scholars. The one points to anything said in the Bible and not confirmed independantly of the bible's 66 books as proof of its unreliability. The other uses the information within those books to find lost cities and understand the lives those people lived.