(March 1, 2015 at 10:16 am)Dystopia Wrote: But what is demonstrable? What constitutes evidence?
Evidence of a claim, or a raft of claims, has to be proportionate to those claims. Saying that the name of the third spearman from the left in Pilate's bodyguard was Biggus Dickus and not Sillius Soddus might require little more than a couple of references in an obscure letter. Claiming that someone respawned after a long weekend and then flew off into the sky, we're going to need a bit more than anonymous references to eyewitnesses written years later and "why else would the tomb be empty?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
