Belief in the supernatural has nothing to do with it. There is nothing, say, stopping you from believing in something like Reincarnation yet rejecting the bizarre interpretations of the Bible espoused by fundamentalists. What you simply mean is a rejection of the
a priori belief that the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Only someone with this belief could hold the idea that, say, the book of Daniel was written in the 6th century BCE.
Even going as far as saying there is a God and that sometimes people do make accurate predictions of future events wouldn't in anyway support the notion that Daniel was written in the 6th century BCE. There is simply no way to methodologically do history to support such a notion, except via
a priori belief in the doctrine of inerrancy.
Of course, allowing for the supernatural violates the very idea of history, making it literally impossible to decide on the probablity of any past event.
This message has been edited by Intelligitimate, 05-05-2004 07:15 PM
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