All such ground is sinking sand

 

 There are many things fabulously delivered, and are not to be accepted as truths.

 

-- Thomas Browne

The way of truth is strewn with many errors, which must be censored

Wise men know, that arts and learning want expurgation; and if the course of truth be permitted to itself, it cannot escape many errours.

-- Thomas Browne

Peter Leithart observes that William Lane Craig is a moderate on Genesis, and Craig responds that a figurative reading was the Pentateuchal author's intent!

In which Leithart amusingly puts back on his discarded Protestant hat to defend the faith from a mind-reader trapped in a cul-de-sac.

[H]e sneaks into the head of the author of Genesis to discover that the biblical account of Eden and the fall was “fantastic, even to the Pentateuchal author himself.” ... Some Evangelical theologians deny the existence of a historical Adam entirely, which means that Craig’s position is a moderate one.

-- Leithart, here in "Doubts About William Lane Craig’s Creation Account"

If an aspect of a story contradicts what the Pentateuchal author believed, it is unlikely to be literally intended.

... the Pentateuchal author would have known that ... sunset and sunrise could not have occurred prior to the creation of the sun ...

... If the stories are inconsistent with one another when read literally, that suggests that a literal interpretation is not intended.

-- Craig, here in "Mytho-History in Genesis"

 

The batchelors conspire to destroy the world

There is in man a natural possibility to destroy the world; that is, to conspire to know no woman.

-- Thomas Browne

A really good question it never occurred to Eve to ask The Serpent, for some reason

 

 

If the taste of this Fruit maketh the eaters like Gods, why remainest thou a Beast?

-- Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica I.2

Knowledge is made by oblivion

 

 

 

Knowledge is made by oblivion, and to purchase a clear and warrantable body of truth, we must forget and part with much we know.

-- Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

One of the greatest scientists ever was a Protestant

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" – Richard Feynman, atheist, Jew, theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner in 1965