(September 8, 2014 at 1:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(September 7, 2014 at 11:02 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Basically, I'm trying to make an appeal that you evaluate your definition of hearsay, that you don't apply a criticism to religion that you wouldn't apply to any other area of your belief system, and that you consider the logic of your argument.
It's known as ECREE. The more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary must be the evidence supporting it. We wouldn't accept the same standard of evidence for the name of the third slave to the left of the pharoah, for instance, as we would for claims that that slave rose from the dead and roamed Egypt prophesying the events of the New Testament.
One could also then argue though, regarding the belief of god, that it is more extraordinary for one of the human species to be an atheist. Indeed complete and total rejection of spiritual experience is an anomaly in the grand scheme of human experience. An extraordinary claim.
