Biblical Christianity 101, a study of the book of Romans

[Redbeard The Pink]

It's a much more likely explanation than that they actually saw Jesus rise from the dead, appear to them as some form of spiritual being, and then ascend to heaven. It's also backed up by heaps of evidence from modern days that people are all too willing to believe things without evidence.

Can you please provide some of this heaps of evidence.... most of what I have seen, is just making up a different story and denying the actual historical evidence, because of a priori bias against any type of miracle.  It's not considered good historical scholarship at all.

If I wished to deny evolution, can I just deny the evidence, and say that it is more likely that they are mistaken or made things up, simply because of a priori bias?

There is no historical or scientific evidence to support any miraculous claims, so there is no reason to believe that miracles happen. Evolution, on the other hand, is backed by evidence from biology, geology, and various other modes of science. One might deny that evidence, but for miracles there is no evidence to deny.


Also, he's right. Science tells us that it's remarkably easy to convince most humans to believe at least a few things without sufficient evidence to justify those beliefs. Taking things for granted is part of how our brains work, and it's probably the primary reason religion still has such a social foothold in otherwise scientifically progressive societies.