Grad student seeking atheist to interview

[Simon Moon]

Hey everyone, sorry it's taken me so long to get back on here. I've been really busy with family, work, and school, etc. I wasn't even sure I would get back on here but I did want to say a few things -

I am NOT trying to evangelize. Someone implied I was not rational for being a Christian and I brought up the eyewitnesses to the resurrection of Jesus. I said this to give an example of how it is rational to be a Christian because there are logical reasons to believe it - not just emotional reasons. I wasn't making this comment to evangelize or try to evangelize.

Since I'm not here to evangelize, I'm not going to get into apologetics - or not on this thread anyway because I know it's not the place.

HappySkeptic - I don't believe in a "young Earth" either. I believe the scientific record on age of the earth, universe, etc. Do you think Genesis teaches a literal 6 day creation? I am curious if any of you have found Genesis to be a cause for unbelief because the scientific record seems to contradict what is taught in Genesis?

How do you know there were 500 witnesses, or any witnesses, for that matter?

The Bible, was'nt written for decades of more after the alleged events, but [b]unknown[/authors], and we don't even have an original copy. The oldest New Testemant document, is a credit card sized fragment from John, called P52. And it is no older than 125 CE. And on top of that, there are no contemporaneous accounts outside the Bible for any kind of corroboration.

So, if you think that believing anonymous texts, of supernatural events, with no oter evidence is rational, you seem to have a different definition of the word 'rational'.

Here's a question for you. Right now, you could interview 100's of living witnesses about their alien abduction stories. Do you think it is rational to believe these living witnesses? Don't you think that getting testemony from actual living people is better than anonymous texts from 2000 years ago?

Let me be clear, I am not saying that these people are purposely lying, only that they are possibly misinterpreting some natural event.

Let me add, that, the Bible is not evidence for the Christian god claim. The Bible is the claim. If you can't see how quoting the Bible as your 'rational' reason to believe the Bible, is a circular argument, and therefore, by definition, irrational, then you are having even more basic logic problems.