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To: Diamond
What "absolute criteria" would that be?

Absolute criteria would be an unattainable, but approachable ideal of certainty. The greater the probability and statistical confidence, the closer you are to the ideal.

Not unlike what you referred to earlier when you stated that "our proofs must be compatible with our nature"

That's not "metaphysical." Our nature is material. Our size, and our makeup determines what we can  and cannot do, what we can and cannot see, etc.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead as an event in space/time history - would that qualify as something supernatural in your mind?

Not necessarily.

3,522 posted on 11/28/2010 8:36:35 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50; Diamond
Absolute criteria would be an unattainable, but approachable ideal of certainty.

Then it wouldn't be absolute.

The greater the probability and statistical confidence, the closer you are to the ideal.

That still doesn't explain the criteria. You have to know what the ideal IS first, not just what you think it is. It requires an objective, outside standard to which to compare and anything man sets up is philosophical in nature and therefore subjective, which makes it useless in determining anything *absolute*.

3,527 posted on 11/28/2010 9:19:33 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: kosta50
That's not "metaphysical." Our nature is material. Our nature is material. Our size, and our makeup determines what we can and cannot do, what we can and cannot see, etc.

The statement, "Our nature is material" is itself a metaphysical statement, which make it self-referentially incoherent.

Cordially,

3,669 posted on 11/30/2010 5:40:18 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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