(August 15, 2010 at 2:24 pm)RAD Wrote: e.g. merely arguing "there isn't enough evidence" is just one massive argument from silence, and doesn't prove anything
Actually, it's a perfectly reasonable argument. Until you provide evidence, all we need do is state that there is none.
Quote:Well no, you still have to explain how fishermen wrote similies like Shakespeare, and prove they lied instead of just slandering them and calling them myth-mongers. The slanderer has the burden of proof, not the one slandered. To prove it you need to use internal evidence. I don't take seriously any atheist who hasn't read it themselves. What happens is they make statements and assumptions about Jesus which are simply false because they haven't read it.
How can you slander Mohammad, Buddha and Joseph Smith? How can you not believe in Hinduism if you haven't read the Vedas? As for the writers of the Bible writing similes like Shakespeare, that's disputable. Nonetheless, as the authorship of the Bible is very unclear, it's more likely that these bits weren't written by fishermen.
Quote:Major logical fallacy! "False in one part therefore false in all."
If it's meant to be the word of God, false parts seriously undermine the whole.
In the words of Obi-wan Kenobi: you want to go home and rethink your life.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
