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An overall very good two cents this time:
However, the God question is firmly metaphysical.
"(the study of what can’t be proven, at least with the five senses)." But are you not well-arguing for it as a epistemological claim. At least as providing enough evidential warrant for excluding the God of the Bible as simply being a metaphysical claim.
perhaps even more powerful is the extraordinary amount of cosmic fine-tuning to make a planet suitable for life. The odds against this happening were astronomically improbably, yet here we are, sentient beings on a planet thriving with complex ecosystems. Life itself, even in the most primitive form, is so overwhelmingly complicated that its very appearance was nothing short of miraculous.
Indeed. I think an article just on that should be well-received.
The sheer volume of very early New Testament manuscripts is the shortest gap from a historical event to the first records of that event, making Jesus the most attested to figure from the ancient world. It’s not even close.
"the shortest gap from a historical event to the first records of that event" of such antiquity you mean.
-Atheists tend to be too quick to embrace pseudo-historical conspiracy theories about early Christianity. A host of disproven nonsense is still widely out there, thanks in no small part to Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code.
Indeed .
Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins.
Indeed. A satanic trinity (may God grant them repentant faith), whose railings against the God they profess disbelief in is a testimony to the reality of the devil, since they came from him.
-Along with Jesus mythicism is the claim that the story of Christ is a copy of pagan mythology.
I think you are familiar with Holding's series countering various copycat assertions.