Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

[Pat Mustard]

Still waiting for an intelligent discussion? Anyone?

Steve, face facts here. Nobody is going to suddenly turn around and suddenly start believing your unevidenced assertions. The fact of the matter is that even if we allowed your premise that you don't need extraordinary evidence to prove an extraordinary claim you still lose because a) you've no evidence for your god assertions, and b) every single thing you attribute to god has a more rational naturalistic hypothesis with, most importantly, evidence behind it.

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We are not talking about piecing things together from broken pottery. We have dozens of period documents that almost all scholars believe are 99% they way the were written. Nothing to piece together--either it happened or it didn't. Please explain to me what verification is possible in 2017 of any series of specific events in ancient times? Otherwise, it is a case of special pleading.

Well I am a Romano_British archaeologist, and I think pottery is pretty cool, but if old words impress you, look up the Vindolanda tablets, now fully published.

The Bloomsberg tablets are only partially translated and published, but they are even older.

Nought to do about Christianity, but the environmental, dendrochronological and physical evidence is amazing.

Roman Britain is cool and evidenced.

Did you ever meet Baldrick?