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The seeming impossibility of a successful argument for Christianity
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RE: The seeming impossibility of a successful argument for Christianity
(December 14, 2012 at 11:25 am)John V Wrote: @ OP:
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.
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.
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RE: The seeming impossibility of a successful argument for Christianity - by pocaracas - December 14, 2012 at 11:43 am

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