Re: Barbara Thiering Refuted!

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:53:07 +0000, Doug Weller
<dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Science is based on the idea that one scientist can replicate and confirm
the work of another scientist. I publicly challenge Barbara Thiering or
any of her followers to explain her "pesher method" so that a qualified
scholar can apply it the the transfiguration passage in Mark Chapter 9 and
independently come up with the "hidden pesher meaning" of Jesus stripping
the Jewish High Priest naked and carrying out the atonement ritual in his
place. Until this is done, I proclaim on the authority of the flying
spaghetti monster that Barbara Thiering's theories are hereby officially
refuted.


You beat me to it. I was going to point out to Carl that his claim about
'the highest standards of proof' was ridiculous because the highest
standards of proof require the ability for people to agree on the
methodology and the results. Not something that only the initiated can
understand.

I was with you to the last bit. There are **many** topics which only
the initiated can understand, and even then their understanding is
neither complete nor final. Consider quantum mechanics, or genetics,
or cosmology as examples.

In the case of Barbara Thiering, the fact that one particular person
cannot be trained to use her pesher method of reading to obtain the
same result as she does, does not mean that her method is invalid. If
that person _will_not_ be so trained then that person cannot be
trained.



Eric Stevens
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