Why Bart Ehrman Pisses Me Off..... sometimes

[Angrboda]

If you proceed by eliminating the implausible from a story, by definition what you will have left is therefore plausible. To then turn around and accept those details on the basis of their plausibility alone is an irrational procedure. It's tautological. Whenever you remove the implausible and are left with only the plausible, and declare that core as true based upon its plausibility, then all stories become certifiably true. If you reduce Sherlock Holmes to the claim that a man lived in a flat in London, it's automatic that the remaining details are sufficiently mundane to pass muster. If you are going to reduce a story in this way, you must then look to other sources for its veracity, lest you engage in a pathetically reasoned circle.