RE: MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)
December 15, 2014 at 9:20 pm
(December 15, 2014 at 5:23 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Hey, I have no problems admitting that the 2 billion Christians in this world could be wrong...but they again, they also could be rightIf they agreed on every point, perhaps. There are three arguments we get from Christians pretty regularly. One is some version of "two billion people can't be wrong" and the other is some version of "but most of them aren't True Christians."
The third argument is some version of Pascal's Wager, which is particularly hilarious in light of the tens of thousands of different versions of Christianity alone. So no, they can't be right. There might not even be a scenario in which half of them are right. But all of them could definitely be wrong.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
