RE: How to select which supernatural to believe?
July 17, 2022 at 9:18 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2022 at 9:18 pm by Jehanne.)
(July 17, 2022 at 8:36 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(July 17, 2022 at 6:15 pm)Jehanne Wrote: We will simply have to agree to disagree on points #1 & #2, and with respect to #3, you're pounding on an open door.
Sure, as long as you acknowledge that you want to agree to disagree as your way of saying you're too febrile to simply admit you were wrong. Number three here isn't an open door so much as it isn't a door at all. The literature possessing characteristics similar to other literature that is not historical tells us nothing about how we "should" treat it, so you're wrong in that as well.
Wrong about what? That atheistic naturalism is falsifiable?
As for the historical record, historians often speak of probabilities; for instance, that Jesus of Nazareth existed as a historical individual and was crucified by Pontius Pilate is very highly certain; that he rose corporeally from the dead, went to Britain to preach, and after that, went to North America to preach to the North American Indians is far, far less certain, so uncertain, that I dismiss it, even though such is found in the historical record
That a human being could, in advance, predict the exact head/tails outcome, in advance, of 100 coin tosses (or, 1000 or 10,000) and have that event ascribed to naturalistic causes is, in my opinion, abjectly absurd. I see no reason to discuss that further.