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In this post Silva writes:

For those who may not know, Chris Lyons is the leader of the self-proclaimed “Watcher of the Watchdogs” website CRN.Info.

The problem is nowhere on this website has any single writer much less all of us proclaimed ourselves the “watcher of the watchdogs”. We’ve noted in the past that Silva has had problems with producing accurate research, but how does this one get past him? We even have a cool little search bar where he can search almost without effort. Now true, the latin across the top of the site poses the question, “who will guard the guards?”, but that’s a long way from a declarative statement of self-proclamation that we are “the watcher of the watchdogs”.

But its ok, we’re the forgiving sort, all we ask is that Silva issue a correction and an apology as is fitting of anyone bearing the name of Christ who has made a mistake.

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[Update by Chris L.]

Wow!  You’re gone most of an evening and look what you miss…

I do find it … odd … that Ken has quoted me saying something I never said.  It’s not the first time he’s lied about me (or anyone else, for that matter), and I’m pretty sure it won’t be the last time, either.

When I look at the other folks he commonly lies about, I figure I’m in pretty good company.   While the “Worst Researcher Ever” title probably belongs to an old lab partner of mine from high school (Dan, I hope you’re not reading this), Tim’s alternate title selection “is Ken a researcher at all?” would probably be more accurate…

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From CR?N:

So today over at Triablogue we read from Paul Manata:

Chris Lyons has a beef with systematic theology. His post critiques the project of systematic theology by appeal to that old story about the 6 blind men and the one elephant. You know, they each felt a part of the elephant and thought that their experience of the elephant constituted the whole truth of the matter (one felt the trunk and said it was a snake, another, the tusks, and said it was a spear, etc.,) when, really, there were many truths of the matter; so goes the story…

But notice that the author can only make this critique (about others being wrong, etc.,) because he has knowledge (or has seen) the entire elephant. So, it is he who has the entire truth. If the moral is intended to critique those who say that they have the whole truth, it is self-refuting… I thus judge that Lyons’ critique fails miserably.

For those who may not know, Chris Lyons is the leader of the self-proclaimed “Watcher of the Watchdogs” website CRN.Info.

I for one, have never heard Chris L claim that he knew the entire truth.

Jeff Manion recently gave an excellent sermon at Mars Hill Bible Church called ‘Window Washing‘, which I have found quite applicable to the discussions we have been having of late, and to the basic theology of our site: Finding the Christ-honoring way which sits somethwere between the poles of phariseeism and hedonism - between legalism and looking no different from the world - between self-righteous sanctimony and lassez faire postmodernism.

This link should be good for the next 10 weeks or so…

Enjoy!

 

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HT: CRN.Info commenter ianmcn

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