RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
August 3, 2017 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 2:45 pm by LadyForCamus.)
It never ceases to amaze me how theists will doggedly object, tooth and nail, to the most mundane and common explanations for their religious claims; explanations that are evidenced all throughout human history, in just about every culture; while propping up the most extraordinary explanation as inarguable truth on essentially no evidence at all.
Why do they find these concepts as answers so hard to fathom? Groups of individuals conspire, obfuscate, and collude in the name of power, wealth, and other self-interests. We know this for a fact. Cultures of folks weave legends and myths over time with the telling, and re-telling of old stories. We know this for a fact. Human beings exaggerate. We know this for a fact. The supernatural was often put forth as an explanation for natural occurrences before people had a scientific understanding of the world. We know this for a fact. Eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable due to the faults of human memory. We know this as a scientific fact. All of these things, to one degree or another, are probably happening in our own culture, right now.
And yet...Steve and co. will continue to insist in the face of reason that these explanations; these things which are thoroughly evidenced in our reality; things they proffer as perfectly rational explanations for every other holy text besides their own; are individually and cumulatively far less probable than...magic.
Why do they find these concepts as answers so hard to fathom? Groups of individuals conspire, obfuscate, and collude in the name of power, wealth, and other self-interests. We know this for a fact. Cultures of folks weave legends and myths over time with the telling, and re-telling of old stories. We know this for a fact. Human beings exaggerate. We know this for a fact. The supernatural was often put forth as an explanation for natural occurrences before people had a scientific understanding of the world. We know this for a fact. Eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable due to the faults of human memory. We know this as a scientific fact. All of these things, to one degree or another, are probably happening in our own culture, right now.
And yet...Steve and co. will continue to insist in the face of reason that these explanations; these things which are thoroughly evidenced in our reality; things they proffer as perfectly rational explanations for every other holy text besides their own; are individually and cumulatively far less probable than...magic.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
