RE: The Resurrection
February 9, 2025 at 5:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2025 at 5:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I can only ask the question so many ways, and in the absence of an answer just move on.
In the question of whether or not one x raises the probability or possibility of another - we refer to content quality and kind. They are persuasive insomuch as they are alike. There have been many examples of how what we are considering to be technologically possible resurrections are of a different quality than god resurrections. All the ways in which each example falls short of the specific resserruction in question..and which may be not be possible through the manipulation of technological levers. None of that speaks to what a god might do, if that god were meaningfully free of those barriers. But that's the ballgame.
If the set of what is possible for a god is different in content quality and kind than the set of what is technologically possible, no technological possibility reliably speaks to god possibility. Theists realize this when they want to claim that their god has done or can do the impossible...and forget it when they want to claim the credit some doctor or scientific process deserves to manufacture credibility for their silly gods who allegedly work by other means.
In the question of whether or not one x raises the probability or possibility of another - we refer to content quality and kind. They are persuasive insomuch as they are alike. There have been many examples of how what we are considering to be technologically possible resurrections are of a different quality than god resurrections. All the ways in which each example falls short of the specific resserruction in question..and which may be not be possible through the manipulation of technological levers. None of that speaks to what a god might do, if that god were meaningfully free of those barriers. But that's the ballgame.
If the set of what is possible for a god is different in content quality and kind than the set of what is technologically possible, no technological possibility reliably speaks to god possibility. Theists realize this when they want to claim that their god has done or can do the impossible...and forget it when they want to claim the credit some doctor or scientific process deserves to manufacture credibility for their silly gods who allegedly work by other means.
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