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Chapter 4  
     
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 The expert defence is by far one of the most common public media responses by the church. It pertains to bringing together one or more experts in various fields of archeology, of theology, psychology and a host of other areas.
  
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 The sheer credentials of the expert and their ability to quote facts and authority for a specialist area makes them an immediately credible and powerful tool for responding to a perceived threat.
  
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 Often what an expert will do, to add drama to their defence is quote a number or some kind of benchmark of error, thus allowing their credentials and counter claim to do much of the work in demolishing a claim against the church without having to actually go into great detail.
  
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 The expert defence without question will be one of the most important and most effective methods for attacking the credibility of the Supreme Bible of God. For the church has a virtually limitless reserve of experts across every field of science from which it can draw comment.
  
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 Expert attacks will vary. Some will attack the credibility of dates. Others will attack the credibility of source documents. Others will attack the credibility of claims. Others still will combine forces to refute by number ie. 144 things wrong with the Supreme Bible.
  
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 Media outlets generally love experts, especially media savvy experts who are able to present solid looking counter arguments to claims. This does not mean that media companies always take the side of experts, but simply that experts reduce the liability of an outlet concerning the publication of a potentially one sided story as well as present a complete pro-and-con argument in story packaging.
  
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 The medium lends itself to adversarial superficial story telling whereby arguments are forced for the sake of air time and column inches to be squashed into slogans, credentials and counter claims. Again this is no ones fault, but the necessary by-product of the medium.
  
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 Just by being the church, the Catholic Church in wheeling out experts is able to demolish the credibility of 99 out of 100 attacks on its credibility.
  
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 The author Frank O’Collins hopes experts will find genuine fault with the Supreme Bible on behalf of the church, for it will mean all this is a terrible dream and not real. Nor is the author worried about attacks on his credibility. If it means revealing the truth, rather than smokescreen, then every attack is for a greater cause.
  
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 But experts who claim to know, but know nothing, who simply spin yarns with little or no care, do justice neither to the Church that hired them, nor the argument at large. For to truly demolish the Supreme Bible of God requires careful and forensic arguments, not sloppy populist slogans.
  

 
 
 

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