I Am Innocent

[calcbandit]

1) If you are reading a book that makes an outrageous claim (I once knew a guy who had 39 heads and 4 arms! He lived till he was 175!), and there is no external evidence of this claim (the only proof of it is that the book says so), then it's still possible that the claim is true. However, it is orders of magnitude more likely that the author of the book was some combination of dishonest and deceiving, himself deceived, mistaken, minunderstood, speaking allegorically, or leveling you. Even if everything else written in the book "has never been proven false" (lol selective literal interpretationments). Does anyone disagree with this? If so, why don't you just go ahead and beleive 100% of what you read?

2) The claim that some guy rose from the dead is outrageous. So is the claim that some guy split a sea in half. And the fact that the book you read these claims in happens to be called the Bible (or maybe you read other outrageous claims in the Koran) doesn't change the above probabilities.

3) I (and DS) am not saying that these mircales didn't happen, but if you honestly had to set odds for their likelyhood, anyone who beleives they happened is probably more than a billion times too optimistic.