RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 30, 2015 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2015 at 1:17 pm by JesusHChrist.)
(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.
Not quite. It's you *saying* 10 people told you a house is burning. Hey Steve! 10 people, just now, have told me your house is burning! Is your house, in fact burning? Or is it merely the *claim* the house is burning? See how that works?
Quote:You can argue what might be better evidence, but you cannot claim there is no evidence for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Right. Your evidence is of the same quality as the evidence Mohamed was visited by an angel and flew hundreds of miles on a winged, magical horse-like thingy to Jerusalem and back in a single night, or that Joseph Smith used magic stones to translate magical golden plates into 16th century English, i.e., bullshit.
Why are you so gullible as pertains to ancient stories, and just one particular story? You're skeptical about Mohamed's tall tales, yet swallow Jesus and friend tall tales hook, line and sinker. Do you not see the parallels?