(March 22, 2013 at 1:36 am)Godschild Wrote: I do not see this is circular, let's look at this, a friend comes and tells you that he saw a man once dead and buried walking around town with two women. Then another friend says to you he saw the same man walking with three women, yet another friend says she saw the man walking with two men and a woman. This event was witnessed by all three at the same place and same time, do you really believe you would give much thought to the people who were with the risen man. Or would you say this man can't be alive my friends saw different people with him, or would you be like me and check out such a miracle?
Why is it that when anyone points out that there are many inconsistencies among the resurrection tales, theists point to the minor ones and act as if they're the only contradictions?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
