tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811101406548572887.post7166018082765570359..comments2023-08-02T15:59:15.371-07:00Comments on Nineveh's Crossing: Atheism and Miracles: Is It Really About Evidence?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811101406548572887.post-46539671614559133192010-12-30T06:17:24.533-08:002010-12-30T06:17:24.533-08:00As he concludes at the end, the real position of t...As he concludes at the end, the real position of the Athiest is that the don't want there to be a God, so they don't have to follow any morality. Without a God, everything can be rationalized. Everything is about me. I can live my life based upon what I feel makes me happy, no matter the effect/affect on anyone else. Without God, the ten commandments do not exist. Therefore I can break anyone without any consequence or guilt.Raymond VinZanthttp://openid.aol.com/raymondvinzantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811101406548572887.post-40756346480447973892010-12-09T21:10:10.067-08:002010-12-09T21:10:10.067-08:00I don’t think that it really matters whether you d...I don’t think that it really matters whether you define a miracle as natural or supernatural. When it comes to our ability to draw inferences from evidence, the appearance that the laws of nature are being broken thwarts us just as completely as the actual breaking of the laws of nature.<br><br>The only reason we think that fingerprints on a gun might be evidence of who committed a murder is because we think we understand the natural processes by which the pattern on the human finger can come to appear on the handle of a gun and we think that those processes act consistently and invariably. If we didn’t understand that these patterns appear as the result of secretions from the friction ridges on the human finger, we couldn’t infer that the fingerprint was evidence of who handled the gun. If we thought that such patterns appeared randomly on objects or if we thought that they appeared by divine fiat, we couldn’t say that the fingerprints were evidence of anything.<br><br> In order for us to infer a particular cause from an effect, we have to be able to say something about the processes by which those effects are normally caused. However we define miracles, we don’t have any way to say that particular evidence is more likely to be the result of a miracle than a natural process that we understand.Vinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08955726889682177434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811101406548572887.post-5277352594695665322010-12-09T20:04:36.223-08:002010-12-09T20:04:36.223-08:00Really nice post!Really nice post!Darlanoreply@blogger.com