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To: grey_whiskers

By “revealed truths” I mean Scripture and traditions. Since both the Jewish and Christian faiths depend on historical events, do you think any of that history can be used in an objective sense for a proof of God? Just interested in your informed opinion. Thanks.


60 posted on 07/22/2010 7:37:28 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: Shark24
Indication, but not experimental proof.

That's the price one pays for being historical: just as we can't go back and re-play the battle of Waterloo where Napoleon had a pair of A-10 Warthogs for backup fire.

The mistake made by the atheists is to assume that if something is not susceptible to the blandishments of "scientific" investigation, then it is necessarily false.

Occam's razor works great on reducing false positives, it is not so good with false negatives.

The other issue is that the scientific ansatz is based upon the working supposition of "uniformity of causes in a closed system."

Once you allow (even for the sake of argument) the actual possibility of the supernatural, your boundary conditions go out the window.

Cheers!

61 posted on 07/22/2010 3:19:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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