Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

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This.

I'd honestly like to hear Steve (or anyone liking Steve's posts) to address this.

Well, I cannot speak for Steve, but in my own case I think people need to look at the type of literature containing miracle accounts. Works of mythological or allegorical literature describe vague seemingly timeless settings and begin with phrases like "a long time ago in a gallexy far, far away...once upon a time" or even "in the beginning" like in Genesis. The Vedic texts, Sutras, and so-called Gnostic gospels are pretty much all like this. The canonical gospels are very different.

They mention specific times and places using the narrative conventions of the period similar to Plutarch. The Pauline epistles are letters on par with other similar types of functional documents produced at around the same time. As such, the miracles found in the NT are presented to us as historical events, with the Resurection in particular being prominently mentioned from in multiple places.[/quote]


But the accounts are very similar to the myths of other contemporary figures. The hagiography of the Caesars for example.

As for me I have no bias against the supernatural as such, so I see no reason to automatically rule them out simply because they are miraculous.

The supernatural is not a real thing, its a fantasy like the loch ness monster and gnomes