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Your post aside Splendour, and I'll completely disregard its contents because I don't at this time have enough knowledge to make judgement about them + your completely uncritical posting of bad articles made me not read it all.

But I'll make another point:

There was a time when theologists were amongst the firemost scholars that existed, and many great scientists throughout the times have also been biblical scholars. Isaac Newton amongst others is one of the great biblical scholars, merely an example.

But to tell the truth it has really all gone downhill. Bias, rigidness of beliefs and looking at science as the 'enemy' amongst many belief groups has ruined it - plus the church started this unfortunate process of branding people who were only honest as heretics. Theology had to go because it held knowledge down.