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The pinnacle of existence

Bart Erman is a Bible criticBart Erman is a New Testament scholar and an atheist critic of the Bible. During meditation he got this thought: “A rock has no way of recognizing that a dandelion exists. A dandelion has no way of recognizing that a panther exists. … A panther has no way of recognizing that a superior intelligence exists …  who can engineer skyscrapers, or split atoms, or reconstruct the history of Rome…

“The fact is that the lower levels of existence can never know about the higher ones, what they really are, what they are capable of, how they exist, what they do, and so on. They can’t even conceptualize their existence. (more…)