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🗓️ 21 February 2017
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0:00.0 | There's this story that I have referred to before that I think about often because it makes |
0:10.0 | me think about how I think. |
0:15.0 | I was in my college freshman English class and our professor was talking about evolution. |
0:23.9 | One of the girls in the class just kind of ruffled her feathers up and said, well, it's |
0:29.0 | not true, whatever I can remember. |
0:30.3 | She said exactly, but it kind of caught the attention of everybody. |
0:34.6 | And the professor directed his attention towards her and was like, okay, what are your thoughts? |
0:40.5 | And she proceeded to sort of teach him that evolution was a lie and that it clearly states |
0:49.3 | so in the Bible. |
0:51.1 | And that's God's word. |
0:52.9 | So it doesn't matter what kind of things he would say about evolution. |
0:56.8 | He graciously said, okay, well, tell me why do you think that the Bible is reliable? |
1:03.1 | Why do you think that the Bible is something that can make you know something like that? |
1:08.6 | How do you know it's true? |
1:10.4 | And she said, well, the Bible says that it's true. |
1:19.6 | And we arrive at the circle. |
1:23.6 | The circle and the thing that why I think about this is I think we all have that. |
1:29.0 | I think that was a really small closed circle of assumption and the circular logic of the |
1:37.9 | Bible is true because the Bible says that it's true. |
1:42.7 | You know, outside evidence or nothing needs to from the outside confirm that. |
1:51.1 | It's a self-sustaining circle. |
1:53.3 | So anything inside of it's up for question. |
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