RE: Testing a Hypothesis about the Supernatural
April 11, 2018 at 9:58 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2018 at 10:05 pm by Succubus.)
(April 11, 2018 at 6:43 pm)SteveII Wrote: ...Regarding your last point, you mean YOU have never seen something really remarkable. There a millions of testimonies of those who have...
And the testimonies of those who witnessed these events can be found where?
Quote:1. Timing
2. Illustrating a particular point.
3. Reinforce teachings with some authority. Example feeding 5000, Matt 9:35
4. So that people might believe (specifically stated). Example Lazarus (John 11)
5. Reward for faith.
6. Theologically significant. example virgin birth, baptism, tearing of the veil in the temple, resurrection.
Five thousand people fed and yet Matthew doesn't name one of them. Why does John not name one witness to the resurrection of Lazarus?
(April 11, 2018 at 6:54 pm)SteveII Wrote: ...For your point to mean anything, you need to discuss the supernatural in vague terms. However, you have just erected a straw man because that is not how people who believe in the supernatural consider this question AT ALL.
Look at the example above. If Jesus did do this thing in the context described, are you still going to hide behind "undiscovered natural causes?" No, only an idiot would think that. So what you have to say is that these events did not exist. Notice you are not really making the same argument you claim to be.
Begging the question! First you must show the thing did actually happen and then you can attempt to ascribe a cause.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.