Dr. Carson’s complaints of scrutiny are whining about piffling details and the media plays right into them. It doesn’t bother me whether he was in 7th or 8th grade when a particular incident occurred. It doesn’t throw me into panic because he got a class number wrong, or that we wasn’t really offered a West Point scholarship. What bothers me is that he is a 7th Day Adventist, which implies that his creed is that the only source of belief is the bible. Scholars know that the historical accuracy of the bible is at the least questionable. The gospels were written several centuries after Jesus died. And by then, they had become proselytizing sales documents which exaggerated and perpetuated the myths of Jesus’ miracles. Further bizarre enhancements were added when it reached the King James version. The connection of the evangelical community to the bible as the source of everything is what gives Carson his tiny band of support. The preponderance of people do not take the bible literally. As a source of moral grounding, I can tolerate and accept it, but anything more is not benign. It’s a veritable disaster. It does bother me that a man who claims that the Egyptian pyramids were storage facilities for grain should not only be scrutinized, he should have his head examined. To think that espousing such an idea should be taken as a sign of his superior wisdom and not reflect on his mental capacity is expecting too much. The man may have been a good doctor, hard as that is for me to believe, but for anything else, he is certifiable.
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