No.
My comment was by what basis a sentence is arrived at - reason or memetic dogma.
Here is a parable to illustrate:
In a strange land far away, the established dogma is that the sum of the internal angles of a plain triangle is 200°. This truth was given by divine revelation and appears in the holiest book of the religion of this land.
A young geometer, a student of the state religion, had the hubris one day to test this truth by careful measurement of a large number of triangles. His results varied slightly but he could not escape the conclusion that what he observed was a value of 180° with a measurement error of half a degree. He took his results to the priests and was duly ridiculed. “Since the truth lies within the holy book and our interpretation of its contents - you must have made a mistake in your observations” they said. “That you make mistakes is obvious because your measurements are not identical”.
But the more intelligent priests were worried. So they began to use all the powers of philosophical discourse they possessed to challenge this heretical idea. They founded a subject called 'geodicy' .
The priests constructed many beautiful arguments, many so complex that virtually no one could follow them. In this way they were able to continue believing in the truth of the holy book by means of their solution of the problem of angle”.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
No.
My comment was by what basis a sentence is arrived at - reason or memetic dogma.
Here is a parable to illustrate:
In a strange land far away, the established dogma is that the sum of the internal angles of a plain triangle is 200°. This truth was given by divine revelation and appears in the holiest book of the religion of this land.
A young geometer, a student of the state religion, had the hubris one day to test this truth by careful measurement of a large number of triangles. His results varied slightly but he could not escape the conclusion that what he observed was a value of 180° with a measurement error of half a degree. He took his results to the priests and was duly ridiculed. “Since the truth lies within the holy book and our interpretation of its contents - you must have made a mistake in your observations” they said. “That you make mistakes is obvious because your measurements are not identical”.
But the more intelligent priests were worried. So they began to use all the powers of philosophical discourse they possessed to challenge this heretical idea. They founded a subject called 'geodicy' .
The priests constructed many beautiful arguments, many so complex that virtually no one could follow them. In this way they were able to continue believing in the truth of the holy book by means of their solution of the problem of angle”.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."