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:::You did not address my point. It was not saying that Conservapedia is expected to be only for "Fundamentalists." It was that it is not just "some Fundamentalists" reject the Documentary Hypothesis. It is also now rejected by a signficant number of liberal scholars, and also by people like Cyrus Gordon who recognized the continual conflicts produced against its theories as ancient inscriptions were translated and understood. I recognized that for some people (are you one of them?) the term "Fundamentalist" is a pejorative term -- was that the reason you put it here? How about substituting "those who believe, with Jesus and the apostles, in the integrity of Scripture"? That would be an accurate statement; could it be substituted? I don't think you won't let that be put in.
 
:::You did not address my point. It was not saying that Conservapedia is expected to be only for "Fundamentalists." It was that it is not just "some Fundamentalists" reject the Documentary Hypothesis. It is also now rejected by a signficant number of liberal scholars, and also by people like Cyrus Gordon who recognized the continual conflicts produced against its theories as ancient inscriptions were translated and understood. I recognized that for some people (are you one of them?) the term "Fundamentalist" is a pejorative term -- was that the reason you put it here? How about substituting "those who believe, with Jesus and the apostles, in the integrity of Scripture"? That would be an accurate statement; could it be substituted? I don't think you won't let that be put in.
 
:::Regarding "Primitive": Certainly these tribes are "modern" in the sense that they are living in the 21st century. But the point is that their most early beliefs, going back we don't know how many centuries or millenia (many of them refer back to the time of their first migration to their present homeland) attest to an early belief in one God. My original paragraph that you omitted is therefore relevant to this discussion of Documentary Hypothesis, since the Hypothesis has always held that monotheism "evolved" as a central tenet. Is this presupposition of the Documentary Hypothesis to be held unfalsifiable by the actual examination of ancient tribal histories and ancient historical texts? See the Monotheism article I just added to to find more explanation, and which also challenges the idea of an evolutionary development or religion that is firmly entrenched in Wikipedia and other liberal sources. I think these ideas should be falisfiable, and evidence that is contrary to its tenets should be allowed to be stated, with appropriate scholarly references.[[User:Latent|Latent]] 16:47, 3 June 2009 (EDT)
 
:::Regarding "Primitive": Certainly these tribes are "modern" in the sense that they are living in the 21st century. But the point is that their most early beliefs, going back we don't know how many centuries or millenia (many of them refer back to the time of their first migration to their present homeland) attest to an early belief in one God. My original paragraph that you omitted is therefore relevant to this discussion of Documentary Hypothesis, since the Hypothesis has always held that monotheism "evolved" as a central tenet. Is this presupposition of the Documentary Hypothesis to be held unfalsifiable by the actual examination of ancient tribal histories and ancient historical texts? See the Monotheism article I just added to to find more explanation, and which also challenges the idea of an evolutionary development or religion that is firmly entrenched in Wikipedia and other liberal sources. I think these ideas should be falisfiable, and evidence that is contrary to its tenets should be allowed to be stated, with appropriate scholarly references.[[User:Latent|Latent]] 16:47, 3 June 2009 (EDT)
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:::"is also now rejected by a signficant number of liberal scholars" -- needs a bit of proof, I suggest. What primitive tribes believe 4000 of years ago is an interesting question --archaeologists spend a great deal of time on it--and most of the time they come up with polytheism. The previous text seems to say that our encyclopedia should a) be based on scientific evidence and b) be based on Fundamentalist beliefs that depend very little indeed on scientific evidence, and which are not accepted by most Christians and c) must assume that beliefs and ideas do not evolve. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 19:49, 3 June 2009 (EDT)
    
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