(February 28, 2014 at 3:20 pm)rasetsu Wrote:(February 28, 2014 at 2:43 pm)discipulus Wrote: Your reasoning is clouded by your postmodernistic worldview.
You, like many others who have come to adopt the postmodern way of viewing reality, rule out the supernatural (miracles etc.) a priori.
IOW, when you read a historical account about Jesus performing miracles, you dismiss it as fiction before you even investigate to see if the account is credible.
Barring a precommitment to naturalism, you have no justifiable reason for doing so.
You essentially argue that miracles can't happen and when asked why, you respond: because all that exists owes its existence to natural forces acting on matter (naturalism). I would then ask: how do you know this? To which you would respond: "that is all that we can detect empirically.
Do you understand why this reasoning is fallacious?
You could say the same about your rejection of the Hindu Vedas. You don't, because you engage in special pleading.
If someone said the Hindu Vedas were not credible because they contain accounts of miraculous events and that miraculous events are not possible because they cannot be empirically verified then they would be no less guilty of fallacious reasoning.
