RE: Atheists: would proof of the ressurection matter to you?
July 16, 2015 at 6:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 6:29 am by Anomalocaris.)
Nothing. It wouldn't prove a god, it wouldn't even show the Jesus of the proven resurrection is in anyway out of ordinary.
It is not unheard of people to fall into a state that in the pre-modern era would be indistinguishable from being dead, with no trivially detectable pulse or breathing, and then revive after a couple of days. By modern standards they were never dead and were always detectably alive. By back water of Roman Empire standards they may well have been considered dead for the lack of sophistication to tell the difference. Such ocurances might thoroughly awe some illiterate Iron Age yokel, but nothing modern medicine would raise eyebrow over.
In fact, some gurus in India have mastered the ability to go into this pseudo death state on demand. Pseudo death also occurs with sufficient regularity upon ingestion of certain types of naturally occurring neural toxin that in parts of the world where such toxins are often found, like in certain sea food, there are taboos against burying the dead for 3 days if the appearently dead is known to have eaten sources of such toxin, on the off chance the seeming dead would revive as they some times do.
It is not unheard of people to fall into a state that in the pre-modern era would be indistinguishable from being dead, with no trivially detectable pulse or breathing, and then revive after a couple of days. By modern standards they were never dead and were always detectably alive. By back water of Roman Empire standards they may well have been considered dead for the lack of sophistication to tell the difference. Such ocurances might thoroughly awe some illiterate Iron Age yokel, but nothing modern medicine would raise eyebrow over.
In fact, some gurus in India have mastered the ability to go into this pseudo death state on demand. Pseudo death also occurs with sufficient regularity upon ingestion of certain types of naturally occurring neural toxin that in parts of the world where such toxins are often found, like in certain sea food, there are taboos against burying the dead for 3 days if the appearently dead is known to have eaten sources of such toxin, on the off chance the seeming dead would revive as they some times do.
