RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 20, 2017 at 5:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2017 at 5:33 pm by Whateverist.)
*Ninja kudos to Mr Agenda. Hadn't read beyond the post I quoted in my last post before I echoed your take.
I assume we'd both expect a high degree of vetting to accept such claims. We're not just talking about whether or not somebody did something we all understand how to do ourselves. It is hard to imagine how one would begin to show conclusively that so-and-so accomplished a 'miracle' by completely non-natural means.
(March 20, 2017 at 5:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 20, 2017 at 4:22 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I'm indifferent to the historicity of a non-miracle-working Jesus, I don't have a bet placed.
But what's called 'evidence' for the miracle-working man seems to not add up to more than 'lots of people believed he was real and really worked miracles, so he was real and really worked miracles'.
Sounds like you've already decided that miracles cannot happen so you edit out those parts. Isn't that kind of like the file-drawer effect?
I assume we'd both expect a high degree of vetting to accept such claims. We're not just talking about whether or not somebody did something we all understand how to do ourselves. It is hard to imagine how one would begin to show conclusively that so-and-so accomplished a 'miracle' by completely non-natural means.
