(February 7, 2020 at 3:31 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(February 7, 2020 at 9:51 am)ColdComfort Wrote: It also reminds me that atheists are a particularly irrational bunch. My guess is very few atheists have ever looked at the evidence from Fatima.
Actually atheists looked into Marian appearances and found it to be very irrational
Ha. Dawkins uses the words 'no evidence' too. What he means is evidence he does not accept. Then he just makes the assertion that these people would have gotten better anyway. How does he know? He doesn't of course. In fairness to Dawkins, you are not going to deal adequately with the evidence of Marian appearances in a short youtube video. The Church takes years to investigate and in the case of medical cures relies on the expertise of doctors both Christian and non-believers. On the other hand an honest man would have said I haven't looked at the medical evidence with the assistance of experts. But Dawkins is not an honest man.
I call him dishonest, and not merely ignorant , for good reason. In the God Delusion he said some things about the demonstrations of the existence of God given by St. Thomas. I read the book at the time and even a layman like myself could tell he didn't anything about those arguments. I am quite he never actually read them let alone took the time to understand them. He was heavily criticized in reviews for this by Christian and non-Christian philosophers. And yet after all this time he has never retracted his errors. That's dishonest.
The stuff about no limbs being regenerated is really bad logic and gives us a glimpse of where he gets his arguments. If I show you the MRI of a person with advanced cancer with tumours all through his body. He prays at Lourdes for a cure and the next day an MRI shows he is cancer free who in heaven's name is going to say " well show me an arm that grew back". A clever man who is also a complete fool.
BTW, is youtube your main source of information? Hope not.
