It's the same kind of fanwankery that the Vatican used to justify fast tracking that old fraud Mother Teresa into the sainthood; declaring it a miracle that a picture of the old bat cured a woman of a tumour that her husband and her doctors said she didn't have.
In this iteration, we're told that we're starting from two presumptions: that a crippled man was 'healed' (to use loaded language), and that said healing was done by Jesus. In the hypothetical, the observation is that the man can suddenly walk, then the formula is applied to determine the likelihood of that event. The Jesus part we're expected simply to swallow by fiat.
In this iteration, we're told that we're starting from two presumptions: that a crippled man was 'healed' (to use loaded language), and that said healing was done by Jesus. In the hypothetical, the observation is that the man can suddenly walk, then the formula is applied to determine the likelihood of that event. The Jesus part we're expected simply to swallow by fiat.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
