Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: April 27, 2025, 11:59 am

Thread Rating:
  • 7 Vote(s) - 1.57 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
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.

(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.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach - by Jenny A - July 18, 2015 at 10:29 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Proving evolution? LinuxGal 24 4249 March 19, 2023 at 10:36 pm
Last Post: Ferrocyanide
  What will win the god wars? Faith, Fantasy, Facts, or God? Greatest I am 98 11559 December 28, 2020 at 12:01 pm
Last Post: Greatest I am
  In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation? GrandizerII 159 24354 November 25, 2019 at 6:46 am
Last Post: Abaddon_ire
  Travis Walton versus The Resurrection. Jehanne 61 19309 November 29, 2017 at 8:21 pm
Last Post: Angrboda
  Why do Christians believe in the Resurrection of Jesus but not alien abductions? Jehanne 72 14585 June 27, 2016 at 1:54 am
Last Post: Redbeard The Pink
  We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response Randy Carson 136 44890 October 2, 2015 at 4:10 am
Last Post: Aractus
  Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach BrianSoddingBoru4 160 32822 July 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm
Last Post: Jenny A
  Obama and the simulated resurrection professor 116 22311 April 25, 2015 at 10:39 pm
Last Post: Wyrd of Gawd
  MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2) His_Majesty 1617 441240 January 12, 2015 at 5:58 pm
Last Post: dyresand
  The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part Ad Neuseum) YahwehIsTheWay 32 8369 December 11, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Last Post: robvalue



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)