":I agree that the example is controversial and unsuitable. That said, it's about an ordinary person, e.g. a Christian fundie such as do exist in the world; this has nothing to do with what you deign to consider a ""serious theologian"". And by the way, of course a ""serious theologian"" won't recognize that there is an obvious and ridiculously simple problem that discredits the scriptures; after all, if a person is inclined to recognize such a thing, he would have realized that ""serious theologian"" is an oxymoron and then he wouldn't have become a theologian in the first place. A scholar of religion, perhaps, but not a ""scholar of God"", which is what a theologian is supposed to be.   

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