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What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?
« on: April 09, 2017, 03:27:50 pm »
What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?

How to think about claims, even the Resurrection

    By Michael Shermer | Scientific American April 2017 Issue
 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary's first definition, a “skeptic” is “one who holds that there are no adequate grounds for certainty as to the truth of any proposition whatever.” This is too nihilistic. There are many propositions for which we have adequate grounds for certainty as to their truth:

There are 84 pages in this issue of Scientific American. True by observation.

Dinosaurs went extinct around 65 million years ago. True by verification and replication of radiometric dating techniques for volcanic eruptions above and below dinosaur fossils.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-would-it-take-to-prove-the-resurrection/
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Re: What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2017, 05:27:35 pm »
It takes "nothing"
For some, nothing is needed, for others, nothing will suffice.
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Re: What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2017, 01:27:19 am »
The Resurrection is not, as far as I know, supposed to be amenable to "proof" in the standard way; that is the point of belief and grace, isn't it?
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Re: What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2017, 01:32:01 am »
Faith…?
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Re: What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2017, 02:55:05 am »
At this, Jesus said, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who believe without seeing."
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Re: What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2017, 04:44:24 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on April 09, 2017, 03:27:50 pm
Dinosaurs went extinct around 65 million years ago. True by verification and replication of radiometric dating techniques for volcanic eruptions above and below dinosaur fossils.

Try again...
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