VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1357724568|CONTENT|The bible is supposed to be the revealed word of god. It amazes me that ostensibly intellectual people (fellow of the college, don’t you know) haven’t spotted that what this revealed word actually reveals is a world exactly as a tribal goat herder from Palestine would understand it. Maybe they think that’s a coincidence, or possibly a great big joke by god. So we have Sacks telling us (via Richard Dawkins) that the bible is completely correct until it’s proven wrong, at which point it magically becomes a metaphor all along. And then Banner, for whom any discovery whatsoever is evidence for religion because it’s all just so amazing and stuff.

What on earth are our universities doing associating with this anti-intellectualism? Is Trinity proud of being able to point to its Dean and say “Hey World, come to us and we’ll teach you to think and reason like this chap does.” Surely it’s time for them to insist on a minimum level of rigour across the board, a rigour that rejects the view that any and all evidence will be used to support a predetermined conclusion. No historian or scientist or geographer would even get a place on an undergraduate course with this attitude.|IP-ADDRESS|10.0.119.228, 217.36.222.79, 10.37.47.204|MODERATIONFLAG|