Excellent article, TIA. Thanks for the link.

On any given moral issue, if the Bible says one thing, the Koran says something different, and the Bhagavad Gita offers yet a third alternative, how, then, is one to decide which of the three is right? Other than nothing more authoritive than the flip of a coin? And DEFEND that choice, except by invoking one's faith?

And despite the strength of your faith, Iona, the correct moral choice might be the Koran. Or the Bhagavad Gita. The only defense for your choice would be your faith that the Bible is right.

Your faith, like it or not, is far less authoritative and knowledgeable than that of an anthropologist's understanding of the priciples that drive evolution. You're guessing. The anthopologist is operating from evidence which is verifiable by any and all.

If they well take their blinders off and look.

Don Firth