RE: Atheism
June 27, 2018 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2018 at 3:43 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 27, 2018 at 2:47 pm)SteveII Wrote:(June 27, 2018 at 2:18 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: No theists care to address this? Interesting.
Who said anything about "sufficient evidence"? Christianity is and has always been supported by a cumulative case with a wide variety of types of evidences. Your Mandela effect theory lacks any other evidence of any type. The theory is so ad hoc as to not even have a starting place for examination.
Personal experience = bad evidence
Ancient texts written by mostly unknown authors, who were not eyewitnesses = bad evidence
Weak stories of Jesus's historical existence, by people who were not alive during Jesus' life (Pliny the younger, Tacitus, Josephus, etc) = bad evidence
An "empty tomb" = laughably bad evidence
"Apostles would not die for a lie" = bad evidence
Fallacious philosophical arguments (Kalam, teleological, ontological, presuppositional, TAG) = really bad evidence
How does a lot of bad evidence become an cumulative case for any claim?
What else you got?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
