RE: The Resurrection
February 6, 2025 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2025 at 2:51 pm by Sheldon.)
(February 6, 2025 at 2:27 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:You directly compared IVF to the belief in a virgin birth. And more generally are making the false equivalence, that objective scientific facts are comparable to unevidenced superstition, because those scientific facts might once have also seemed implausible. That they have one thing in common (seeming implausible a priori), does not make them the same.(February 6, 2025 at 2:08 pm)Sheldon Wrote: That's a false equivalence fallacy, one is supported by objective evidence, and the other is unevidenced superstition. The fact they both seemed fantastic beforehand, does not mean the ideas are the same.
There is no false equivalence because there is no comparison made between separate things. The question is about a single thing—the possibility and merits of resurrections, independent of whether they happen in a children's book or a science lab, on the planet mars or your bedroom floor.
Scientific facts, and miracles, are mutually exclusive.
Quote:The question is about a single thing—the possibility and merits of resurrections,Can you demonstrate they are possible? If not then the question is moot, we might as well be discussing whether mermaids are slippery to the touch.