RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 30, 2015 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2015 at 1:36 pm by Chas.)
(January 30, 2015 at 11:41 am)SteveII Wrote:(January 30, 2015 at 11:33 am)Chas Wrote: Those are not eyewitness accounts, they are hearsay (at best). Hearsay is not evidence. Try again.
There are no non-religious accounts of the alleged events. This absence of evidence that one would expect to be there is pretty damning.
Um, hearsay is certainly evidence. The absence of evidence is not evidence. Would the letters of John, Peter and James by hearsay? You also need a reasonably explanation why the first Christians acted on the belief that Jesus rose from the dead.
And how would you know that the first Christians - whoever they were - believed in a resurrection?
When and where did these first Christians exist? Before or after the Gospels were written, which is decades after the alleged events?
There was plenty of time for myth making.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.