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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I agree. Religious apologists are so aften borderline fraudulent and/or hair splitting and clinging to such specious grounds that on the rare occastion when one or two of them generates quality scholarship that arguably supports orthodoxy it always surprises. FWIW Bloom is mired in the turn of the century.
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I believe Cassuto addresses the issue about how scientific theories become the favorite godchildren of their originators and it requires the death of the originators before future scholars will adequately challenge them or reexamine them. We fall often beholden to our pet theories, even if the evidence around us suggests otherwise.