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No verifiable evidence is the Christian position
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RE: No verifiable evidence is the Christian position
(August 13, 2013 at 4:20 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The bible is evidence in the same way that a web page explaining gravity is evidence. Yeah it presents the evidence rather than being the evidence itself.

Yeah, and you know what that's called? A claim. And claims are demonstrated to be true, not merely asserted to be.

Quote:Direct source is about as good as you get on the web. You don't expect people to go conduct experiments and validate the experiment and it's results against every other similar experiment. You take it on trust that you have good information, hopefully checking the credentials of that source.

You're making a bit of an equivocation there: we trust those claims that are mundane or have those credentials present. Fantastic claims, like the ones you're asking us to believe in the bible, aren't given that level of trust; it's the same reason we don't immediately believe every claim of, say, chupacabras and such online.
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RE: No verifiable evidence is the Christian position - by Esquilax - August 13, 2013 at 8:56 am

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