Oh dear

The difficulty with the Internet is that anybody can have a website and they usually do. Here’s a cunning atheist asking the musical question “If I propose nonsense questions like “How much does yellow weigh?”, will God answer them? Ah HA! Thought not! So there you are!“

Elsewhere on the site we get the sort of random and illiterate heckling that so often passes for atheist “thought”. Jeepers, ancient Hebrews did not classify animals according to Linnean taxonomies, so God is dumb. Yipes! Isaiah and 2 Kings write like human beings and copies the same textual sources when it suits their purposes! The Bible is disproved!

The funny thing is, yet again, who similar this all is to fundamentalist arguments against evolution (“Behold! Platypuses have bills too, so that just shows evolutionists are fools to think ducks evolved from dinosaurs! Answer me that, smart guy!”) The curious need to assume that one *instantly* grasps everything that people who have been spending their lives (and sometimes millennia) pondering is something that fascinates me. An entire civilization is erected on the conviction that Jesus was a historical character and libraries of books are written to carefully dissect every syllable of the founding documents of Christianity. Not a problem! Some guy with a keyboard glanced at the New Testament and read a couple of books by somebody or other and now can confidently state that everybody but him is stupid and the early Christians were too dumb to tell the difference between history and fiction, just as our entire civilization today is overwhelmed by people who cannot tell the difference between J.K. Rowling’s life of Harry Potter and David McCullough’s life of John Adams.