(August 4, 2014 at 5:31 pm)frasierc Wrote: I think someone making a claim of 500 eyewitnesses to an event happening in say 2003 or 1993 - would be a pretty strong claim particularly if they offered for me to talk to these eyewitnesses (so they're hardly unknown to Paul or the Corinthians). If you also factored in that many of the eyewitnesses (such as Peter, James etc) who saw Jesus after the resurrection died on the basis of their testimony about the resurrection.
You can go interview 1000's of people from all over the world that claim they were abducted by UFO's. You don't have to rely on second hand testimony from ancient texts.
There are claims of multiple abductions, several people being abducted at the same time. Some with multiple witnesses.
Are these cases credible?
Why or why not?
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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.