(May 30, 2013 at 6:34 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: As long as there are eye-witness claims or purportedly to be so, there will always be some justification required to reject it, you cannot reject an alleged eye-witness without some sort of justification. Well you can, but then the rejection will be baseless.
There is no evidence that these accounts were written by eyewitnesses.
So, my justification to disbelieve them is that there is no evidence that there are eyewitness accounts.
And eyewitness accounts alone are not reliable evidence for ANY supernatural claims. Any one of us can go talk to thousands of people that claim to have been abducted by aliens.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
