(September 15, 2011 at 2:39 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Nope, you stated that the burden of proof was on the extraordinary claim. So I used the actual definition of “extraordinary” to show that the burden of proof is on you since claiming that miracles cannot happen is by definition the extraordinary claim since a majority of people (the ordinary position by definition) believe miracles can and do happen.
I'm a patient man but I'm not going to explain to you why the burden of proof is on you to show that miracles happen.
Quote:Your naturalism seeps through.Actually, I wear it on my sleeve so there's nothing to seep through. But thank you anyway.
Quote:Is this unabashed special pleading or is there a good reason Christian claims of miracles are held to a different standard?Quote:No non-Christian books though, right? The Muslim Haddiths and the Iliad are not among them, right?Correct.
Quote:Moving the goalposts I see.No, just commenting that IF scholarship accepts Luke as a "historian", then we don't live in a rational society. I repeat my statement that anyone who seriously suggest that mythology should be taken as serious history should simply be laughed out of the room.
Quote: can you please demonstrate to me that a majority of biologists alive today accept Darwinian Evolution?
There are no biologists alive today who don't accept evolution.
Quote:The stone was rolled away after they arrived.
Quote:Where does it say that? It just says they went to the tomb and the stone was rolled away by an earthquake, it never says this happened after they had arrived at the tomb, it probably happened while they were en route.
A. Women leave to go and see the tomb
B. A great earthquake moves the stone and scares the guards
C. The women arrive at the tomb and the angel sitting on the stone speaks to them.
Please point out where in that passage it says what you claim it says in bold above.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
