Re: Sin once more

At 4:25:05 AM on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...>
> wrote:

[...]

>> You really don't get it, do you? The Lebor Gabala Erenn
>> has been carefully studied by a number of scholars and
>> they have determined that it is not an ancient text, but
>> rather a medieval literary invention, contstructed from
>> several different sources, including: native (and often
>> contradictory) genealogies, some vestigial pagan Irish
>> mythological material (filtered by Christian authors),
>> Biblical genealogies, and early medieval
>> pseudo-historical texts (which are wildly inaccurate and
>> often fantastic in nature, thus the "pseudo-" tag).

> Did they remember to wear their pointy hats and all hold
> the stake when they drove it in? Because if they didn't
> the evil theory will rise again,

So? Young creationism and the hollow earth theory are still
around, too. Cranks and overconfident autodidacts are a
dime a dozen.

> unless they would come up with counterargument, which is a
> risky business.

The whole body of relevant scholarship is a counterargument.

[...]

Brian