(July 19, 2015 at 9:14 am)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 19, 2015 at 8:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: And the police say "that's fine and good, Randy, but we have thirteen dead and injured with bullets in their bodies that the ballistics report says came from the gun your wife was recorded on CCTV as firing, as well as her fingerprints on the weapon found in her possession when she was picked up."
Call me when you have anything even accidentally similar to that for your (or any) god.
If you served on the jury and you were presented with such evidence by the prosecutor, you would have no choice but to convict my wife of the crime, would you?
Given such compelling evidence over your "but I know she would never do that", I would have to go where the evidence leads, yes. The fundamental difference between your hypothetical and the resurrection story you're trying to equivocate is that in order for you to do that, you have to turn that physical and forensic evidence into thirteen anonymous dead and injured people who existed solely for the purpose of the story and who disappear without trace afterwards, an empty gun and a jury instructed to come up with an alternative explanation.
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.'
