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The Skeptical Review 1993 (Volume Four, Number One)
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Living on Borrowed Time
    The writing is on the wall, and the days of Christian
    fundamentalism are numbered.

A Perfect Work of Harmony?
    Inerrantists claim that the Bible "is characterized by such an
    amazing unity and beautiful continuity as to be inexplicable on
    the basis of human origin", but it just ain't so..

Was It Morally Right for God to Order the Killing of the Canaanites?
    Yes, says Clarence Lavender.  In a chilling article that has
    Lavender comparing innocent children with cancerous tumors,
    Lavender calls the massacre "the highest manifestation of the
    goodness of God."  If that's the highest, I'd hate to see the
    lowest.

Suffer, Little Children
    Till takes Lavender to task for his moral insensibility.

Does the Bible Speak of the Brain?
    If the authors of the Bible were inspired by an all-knowing God,
    how come they believed that the mind was centered in our
    intestines?

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The Skeptical Review 1993 (Volume Four, Number Two)
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God Was With Him
    When people escape disaster, believers often claim, "God was with
    him."  What, then, are we to think of those who don't escape
    disaster?  If God gets the credit, shouldn't he also get the
    blame?

An Example of "Prophecy Fulfillment"
    An example of the extremes that fundamentalists will go to in
    their search for fulfilled prophecy in the Bible.

Silence in Fantasyland
    The Skeptical Review has a policy of giving free space to
    inerrantists in which they can respond to rebuttals-- so why
    aren't there any takers?

Any Loophole Will Do
    The how-it-could-have-been scenario is a common tactic that
    fundamentalists use to "explain" passages in the Bible that pose
    serious problems for the inerrancy doctrine.  But it is an
    invalid tactic, as this article shows.

Common Sense and Noah's Flood
    Some absurdities in the tale of Noah's Ark.

What is Wrong With Any-Loophole-Will-Do Hermenuetics
    More problems with the implausible how-it-could-have-been
    scenarios offered by inerrantists.

Reader Reaction

A Virgin-Birth Prophecy
    Prophecy is a muddy science, and Bible prophecy more muddy
    than most.  One example of this is the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14,
    which inerrantists claim is a prediction of the virgin birth.
    As it turns out, it is no such thing.

A Challenge to Josh McDowell

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The Skeptical Review 1993 (Volume Four, Number Three)
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Poisoning the Well
    How inerrantists avoid confronting rational arguments, and why.
 
Will There Be Spiders in Heaven?
    A look at biblical errors in reasoning.

Sexual Conduct Pentateuchal Style
    A look at sexual rules of conduct in the Pentateuch.

Once Upon a Time
    Christian fundamentalists dismiss as liberal nonsense any
    interpretation of scriptures that is based on the existence of
    myths and legends in the biblical text, yet they themselves often
    take doctrinal positions that reflect a fairy-tale view of the
    Bible.

The Essence of Prophecy
    Bobby Liddell defends biblical prophecy in this article.

The Myth of Prophecy Fulfillment
    Farrell Till rebuts Liddell's "The Essence Of Prophecy".

Correspondence with Gleason Archer

Et Tu, McDowell?

Dobbs-Till Debate

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The Skeptical Review 1993 (Volume Four, Number Four)
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The Truth Will Make You Free
    This article answers the question, "Why are you evangelical
    about skepticism?"

Letter from a Dead Man
    Dead men tell no tales-- but they do write letters, according to
    the Bible.  This article details a contradiction between 2
    Chronicles and 2 Kings, in which Elijah writes a letter to King
    Jehoram, despite the fact that he wasn't alive (on Earth, anyway)
    during Jehoram's reign.

Letter from a Dead Man: A Response
    Jerry Moffitt responds to "Letter From A Dead Man".

Because the Bible Tells Them So
    Till gives his report of the Gulf Coast Lectures, which centered
    about the theme, "The scripture cannot be broken".  (At least,
    not if you're willing to bend, twist and mutilate it.)

Why Did Matthew Need Dead Babies?
    What was Matthew's purpose in telling the tale of the slaughter
    of the infants in Bethlehem?

Prophecy Fulfillment and Probability
    What are the odds that statistical arguments concerning biblical
    prophecy are valid?  Pretty low, as Farrell Till shows.

How Likely Is It?
    Speaking of odds, what are the odds that the Israelites in
    Exodus could have witnessed so many of God's miracles, and still
    have doubted God's power so many times?

From the Mailbag

Debate on Bible Morality

Study Aids

Saul & the Witch of Endor

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