RE: Evolution, the Bible, and the 3.5 Million Dollar Violin - my article
July 25, 2012 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2012 at 11:06 am by Jeffonthenet.)
(July 25, 2012 at 9:41 am)Rhythm Wrote: No one presupposed god to be a fairytale Jeff. Quite the opposite. God just so happened to be a fairy tale, ah well, live and learn. Trusting someone does not make any given extraordinary thing more likely Jeff. Whether or not someone ardently believes they are conveying accurate information does not make any extraordinary thing more likely.
If you have their personal testimony of an extraordinary incident I think it would make the probability that this instance occurred more likely.
Quote:If drugs and nuts are the limits of why you might imagine that your mother spun such a yarn then the reasons that you feel that this sort of trust is compelling are becoming very clear to me. You've never actually dove into our thought process, our ability to decieve ourselves and others, or the unreliability of our senses and memories.
I am not sure what I haven't done. I have quoted people and responded. I have tried to discuss with reason alone.
Quote:The kicker though, is that you are actually talking about faith, not trust. Im guessing you hope to pull the old equivocation rug at some point in the near future? You don't have a point, you have complaints about reality.
I am not sure what I said that you are referring to here.
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
