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Monday 31 August 2015
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Monday 24 August 2015
Estranged Notions: An Outside-the-Box Argument for Jesus’ Resurrection
Today's post:
An Outside-the-Box Argument for Jesus’ Resurrection
This argument isn't really outside any boxes (and nor is it especially original), and it's also not really a “non-evidential” argument as claimed. The bottom line is that we have good grounds to accept reported experiences only when the probability that the report is false is not significantly greater than the prior probability of the experience; this rule arises from Bayes' theorem, but it's also the same principle given in informal terms by Hume:
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless it is of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact that it tries to establish.
Dillon also misses another key point: we have the testimony in (probably) his own words of one very important early Christian—i.e. Paul—who reports seeing Jesus after his death, and it is clearly the description of a vision. We don't have any good reason to believe that this wasn't typical of early Christians. Even the author of Mark didn't see any need to include any physical post-resurrection experiences.
Thursday 20 August 2015
Tuesday 18 August 2015
Friday 14 August 2015
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Estranged Notions: Why I Am a Humanist and Not a Catholic
Today's post, from an atheist (Todd Stiefel) for a change:
Tuesday 11 August 2015
Saturday 8 August 2015
Estranged Notions: Why the Ultimate Cause of Everything in Existence Must be God
Yesterday's post, concluding the current series:
Why the Ultimate Cause of Everything in Existence Must be God
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Estranged Notions: The One Cause Behind Everything Else in Reality
Today's post: part 2 of the ongoing series.
Monday 3 August 2015
Saturday 1 August 2015
Estranged Notions: The Death of God and the Loss of Human Dignity
I will not even dignify this post with a link; it is just another turd in the ongoing baseless smear campaign against Planned Parenthood.