RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 18, 2015 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 10:33 pm by Jenny A.)
Randy,
You seem to like hypotheticals, Dawkins has one in The God Delusion. Roughly it goes like this, he looks out his window one afternoon and sees a huge dinosaur going by. It's huge and he recognizes the species. Maybe the color surprises him though. He rushes out after and follows it a block or two but loses it.
But real as this experience was, sight, sound, the shaking of the house, perhaps even smell, there is no trace left of the the dinosaur. There are no foot prints. No windows were broken by the concussion of those heavy steps. It left neither scales nor feathers. It didn't leave dino poop. It didn't crush a dog in it's jaws and leave a mangled corpse behind. It didn't break upper tree limbs. And no one else in the neighborhood saw it.
Conclusion: Dawkins didn't see a dinosaur.
See above dinosaur experience. Not to mention ghost sightings, big foot, and premonitions.
However, give me some physical evidence on that three hour tour, or a way to replicate it and then we're cooking with gas.
You seem to like hypotheticals, Dawkins has one in The God Delusion. Roughly it goes like this, he looks out his window one afternoon and sees a huge dinosaur going by. It's huge and he recognizes the species. Maybe the color surprises him though. He rushes out after and follows it a block or two but loses it.
But real as this experience was, sight, sound, the shaking of the house, perhaps even smell, there is no trace left of the the dinosaur. There are no foot prints. No windows were broken by the concussion of those heavy steps. It left neither scales nor feathers. It didn't leave dino poop. It didn't crush a dog in it's jaws and leave a mangled corpse behind. It didn't break upper tree limbs. And no one else in the neighborhood saw it.
Conclusion: Dawkins didn't see a dinosaur.
(July 18, 2015 at 10:28 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 18, 2015 at 10:12 pm)Jenny A Wrote: If Jenny got that three hour tour, but couldn't take the rest of the world on a return visit, Jenny would be asking many questions more medical than religious. Which is really just a way of saying what Kevin said all over again.
If Jesus took you on a three-hour tour of heaven, would that be sufficient evidence for you to believe that he exists? Or would you presume that you were have a bad reaction to some meds?
If such a tour did take place, would you be willing to acknowledge and submit to Him as God?
See above dinosaur experience. Not to mention ghost sightings, big foot, and premonitions.
However, give me some physical evidence on that three hour tour, or a way to replicate it and then we're cooking with gas.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.