8/10/09

Guys I Used To Respect: Robert Wright


Robert Wright, once an intellectual force to be reckoned with within evolutionary psychology and elsewhere, has become a bible-thumping, atheist-bashing, god-fearing (is Bob getting old?) oxymoron. Take the following quote from his newest work, The Evolution of God:
The difference between the Bible’s pre-exilic view of Ishmael and its postexilic view as presented by P is so stark that the biblical narrative, read closely, borders on the incoherent.
Did you catch that? The bible, when read carefully, seems incoherent. Really?

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