re: #775 Buck

I think (for example) that discounting and dismissing a persons work based only on his Christian faith is bigoted.

Good thing we didn’t do that, Buck. He is an archaeologist. Most of his theories— most crucially, the chronology that he had worked out— have been overturned. Even the letter you cited in supposed support of him said that his chronology was flawed.

And yes, it is a negative that he’s starting from the position of proving that what is in the bible is real— if you want to get at the actual truth, that assumption is going to get in the way.