(January 30, 2015 at 1:04 pm)SteveII Wrote: Regarding hearsay evidence...
1. It is not a synonym for proof or a claim
2. It is evidence
3. If hearsay evidence exists of an event, there is evidence of that event.
If 10 people told me your house was burning down and I relayed that fact to you, you would rightly conclude there is evidence that your house is burning down. Although I did not prove anything, you would not be irrational to act on my statement and go home.
You can argue what might be better evidence, but you cannot claim there is no evidence for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Fuckin' Christ!

I don't believe for a moment that you're so stupid that you can't see the difference between "Dude, x, y, and z all told me they saw your house burning. You'd better go home!" and "Did you hear about that God-man rabbi who came back from the dead and floated away into the sky? It's true because x, y, and z told me!"
Seriously, you can't be that fucking dumb. And that leads me to conclude that you are a willfully dishonest tool, a sophist, who will say or do anything to avoid facing up to how flimsy the foundations of your religious faith really are.
Grow up and start reading some good books for a change.