Quote:You guys don't know what you are talking about. A picture of a fossil is not the same as the journals and labs and tests that verify the object is what it says it is. There are plenty of pictures floating around about UFO's, do you believe them because of a picture?
It is not entirely accurate to suggest that we are appealing to a single authority. We are appealing to a great many authorities which have independently, and without an agenda, reached similar conclusions from examination of the same evidence, with the coda that we make no pretenses about them being inerrant. I feel confident in answers that follow questions. I distrust answers which precede questions, when they are right, it is only by coincidence.
I trust the photo of the fossil and not the photo of the UFO because there is more than just the photo, or testimony, to demonstrate the existence of the fossil. That is true knowledge. What you call knowledge of God is less than a baseless assumption. You can never confirm it. No matter how convincing it is to you, you can never truthfully make the claim that you have knowledge of God, even if it really is the Christian God communicating directly to you, because any number of brain malfunctions can perfectly duplicate any such experience. Can you prove that your 'experiences' were not brain malfunctions?
