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Den of liars and cheats | 3 | 15.00% | |
Perfect acronym; I think of a funny farm | 2 | 10.00% | |
High powered academics doing ground breaking work | 1 | 5.00% | |
Honest advocates | 9 | 45.00% | |
Option 1 & 2 | 5 | 25.00% | |
Option 3 & 4 | 0 | 0% | |
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07-21-2007, 09:49 PM | #1 |
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What is your opinion of FARMS?
Seriously, I want to know the consensus here.
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07-21-2007, 09:56 PM | #2 |
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Don't be so polemical.
My options are not there. I would say FARMS is a group of apologists, doing what apologists do, offering a defense of the Church's history and positions. The quality of work is disparate. Some of the scholarship is acceptable, and some of it is just opinion based apologetics. I don't believe they intend to deceive, as they publish what they believe.
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07-22-2007, 01:38 AM | #3 |
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It's difficult to trust the scholarship of a group who already know the anwser to the question. They will trumpet anything positive and poo poo anything negative. Have they ever gone contrary to that M.O.? Oh yeah they can't.
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07-22-2007, 03:06 AM | #5 | |
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Seattle, I didn't vote because you had too few choices. If you want honest opinions about FARMS, you need to have more options available such as "I don't really have an opinion of it, as I don't need FARMS to validate what I believe".
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07-22-2007, 03:09 AM | #6 |
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Are you ever going to post an answerable poll?
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07-22-2007, 03:57 AM | #7 | |
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07-22-2007, 04:13 AM | #8 | |
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This whole topic is such a dead horse.
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07-22-2007, 04:33 AM | #9 |
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Exactly. They are the same thing as that famous think tank here in Seattle, The Discovery Institute, that issues papers on intelligent design dressed up as real scholarship. Thus how ridiculous Archea looks calling Taq Man and me "closed minded" and the other side of the FARMS coin because we choose to wholesale reject FARMS' work as persuasive of anything.
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