RE: The seeming impossibility of a successful argument for Christianity
December 14, 2012 at 11:43 am
(December 14, 2012 at 11:25 am)John V Wrote: @ OP:I'd restate 3) as: Current claims of observations of extraordinary events are not conclusive, as they can be explained by ordinary events. Hence, no extraordinary events are recorded in a sufficiently unbiased fashion to prove that they occur.
Your argument boils down to:
1. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
2. The ordinary is more probable than the extraordinary
3. Therefore the extraordinary doesn't occur
4. Therefore extraordinary claims can never be proven
However, 3 is fallacious.


