Explain to me what that means in this situation. Does it mean that I can't use my own eyes or knowledge of geology to know that someone IN THE NAME OF GOD is trying to trick me?
If you invoke God, even in an oblique way, does that trump everything else you know to be true?
Two hypothesis
1) In this case, someone may be trying to trick you with a fakery.
2) Dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, as a reading of Genesis would conclude.
Simply examined logically, these two are not mutually exclusive, regardless of your starting beliefs or ending conclusions.
_I_ am not invoking God, I am not making judgements, I am “decorated dust”. The Bible, however, is the authoritative word of God.
Here’s the main point, I’d rather you NOT address above and simply get this:
my reference was specifically to the implication in the poem that God prefers we rely on our own reason than on His word. That is simply false theology.