(November 2, 2016 at 5:02 pm)Emjay Wrote: I'm not saying that I necessarily think this particular thing is a conspiracy, though I am leaning that way now, but what I am saying is that this is how I treat any claim like this; that an earthly explanation always comes first over a magical one. So even if an event can only be explained by a hundred interconnected earthly events, that is always more probable than it being by one supernatural event, because the earthly events are already known to exist (such as, potentially in this case, people lying, deceiving, manipulating etc... especially in the cause of religion).
If you've ever read the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes stated that once you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Unfortunately those who are religious not only fail to eliminate the impossible, they embrace it as the only possible truth and ignore the real explanation.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
