RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 18, 2017 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2017 at 4:33 pm by SteveII.)
(September 18, 2017 at 1:21 pm)Astreja Wrote:(September 18, 2017 at 11:22 am)SteveII Wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicit...historical
Not what I asked, Steve. Why does Philo say nothing at all about someone who was in the same place at the same time, and allegedly causing such a profound ruckus that the Roman occupiers of Judea had to get involved?
(September 18, 2017 at 11:17 am)SteveII Wrote: Miracles are supernatural causes with a natural effect.
Unsupported assertion.
What? How did Rome get involved? Why would a philosophy writer from another country (which did not have even one Christian church) who died a decade after Jesus know of or feel the need to comment? We don't even have all of his works. Not going any further down this rabbit trail.
That is the definition of a miracle, so...I have no clue what you mean.
(September 18, 2017 at 1:32 pm)TheBeardedDude Wrote:(September 18, 2017 at 1:11 pm)SteveII Wrote: It would be trivially easy for any of you to look up. I am not going down rabbit trails.
I did and have before. The answer is "none." Just wanted to see if you'd acknowledge that
I acknowledge that you can't find a trivially easy to find piece of information on the internet.
(September 18, 2017 at 4:08 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(September 18, 2017 at 3:39 pm)SteveII Wrote: No, it is not an argument...it remains just...obvious that more testimony is better than less. The contents of the testimony is irrelevant.
Yet you still haven't acknowledged that the majority of people can be wrong and this is why asset bubbles happen. All you responded with was that it was a horrible comparison without saying why. If an increasing number of people are making the same mistake then it doesn't make what they are mistaken about more likely to be correct.
If a large number of people believe the same thing then all it tells us is that a large number of people believe the same thing.
You can't get around that just by ignoring it.
That the majority of people can be wrong about events (not personal opinions) they personally saw that changed their behavior and life forever? No, I don't acknowledge that that happens.
