Ask, Seek, Knock

[Darkstar]

Arguments from silence aren't fallacious if based on your premise you would expect to have heard or read something.

Sure. However, consider what you guys expect here. Someone who believes these accounts is dismissed due to bias. So, you expect that people who don't believe these accounts to record them and copy them in sufficient number to survive for millenia. Your expectations are illogical. Further, even if you find such records, you can charge that the author was obviously a believer and dismiss them.

If the government recorded it, it would have more credibility. I'm not saying someone who believed the accounts, but someone who can actually provide any evidence beyond heresay. A government record recording eyewitness accounts would have a lot more weight than a heresay account which might not even be able to be traced to the original author who, himself, only learned of the event through heresay (or fabricated the events). The bible was written over fifty years after these events happened. Why? (semi-rhetorical)