I Am Innocent

[calcbandit]

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You are definitely right that evidence changes probabilities. How about the ressurection? Got any evidence for that? Or just 1 book that says so?

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Why? You think when bodies die the people in them cease to exist?

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I don't see why you are arguing this. I get your point. Your point is that sometimes extraordinary things happen and people call these miracles but you just think it's something not supernatural that we don't understand it yet.

My point doesn't conflict your point. My point is that you shouldn't beleive extraordinary claims without a very good reason to do so, and the fact that something is written in a book isn't a good enough reason (or at least apply this standard of beleif or non-beleif to all books, instead of just picking 1 book which you beleive that categorically everything in it is true, regardless of the claim).

I don't at all see how my point contradicts your point. IF these outrageous events occured in the first place, I can see how your line of thinking would suggest that there might be a scientific explanation for them. I'm just saying that smart people should assume that outrageous events didn't exist unless they have good reason to beleive so, and then if you decide that they probably existed, then go ahead and try to figure out if it is a miracle or a we-don't-know-what-it-is-acle.

And no, I'm not reading your book. I have like 30 books ahead of it on my to-read list.

[Praxising]

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My point doesn't conflict your point. My point is that you shouldn't beleive extraordinary claims without a very good reason to do so, and the fact that something is written in a book isn't a good enough reason (or at least apply this standard of beleif or non-beleif to all books, instead of just picking 1 book which you beleive that categorically everything in it is true, regardless of the claim).

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You seem to have me confused with someone else.

1.) Bible is not one book, it's a collection of writings.

2.) No one believes everything in the Bible even if they believe they do - my Church teaches a lot of things about Scripture and one of those things, noted most recently by the man who is presently Pope, is that the first thirteen chapters of Genesis are mythological in nature. The rest comprises pretty much all forms of literature from song to play to history and more.

3.) Define "outrageous" events. Examples would be useful.