Witness Evidence

[Mudhammam]

Is this about "the 500 witnesses?"

In which case RR would be required to argue that his belief in the miraculous is justified on the following grounds: that sufficient evidence of the marvelous or miraculous may include simply trusting a single claimant whose character, apart from many indications of credulity, is largely unknown; who himself was probably trusting in the report(s) of one or more completely unknown, but probably equally credulous characters; and furthermore (the kicker), that given our knowledge of the nature of past circumstances, which include similar or identical claims, the inference that deception or delusion was involved for either the supposed witnesses or the subsequent reporters is to be considered more extraordinary than the report itself. He won't be able to argue this, of course, and so the appeal to the women, the Twelve, Peter, or James will similarly fail, placing the resurrection into the dustbin of strange ideas that have occasionally taken hold of otherwise intelligent folk, alongside forest nymphs that have sex with women, a disconcerting race of dog-headed people, angels, daemons, big foot, and little green aliens.