Re: No logic.. only Foolishness.

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:41:24 -0600

At 11:38 AM 6/4/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Bill Hamilton writes:
>
><<It's always been a favorite of mine, but my experience has been that
>Christians value it highly, nonchristians don't. And the nonchristians
>have objections like those of Russell Stewart: that some alternatives have
>been left out to force the uncritical listener to choose from less than the
>available alternatives.>>
>
>If you delve into the quintilemma in full, I think you'll see that the
>excluded "alternatives" violate the rule of probability. E.g., that Jesus
>"could have just been having fun" is so weak it is not a real alternative at
>all.

And what about the other possibilities? You are once again throwing out
the arguments that you don't like. Read my post again.

>IOW, people can come up with just about anything to avoid accepting the
>obvious.

You are demonstrating that quite well.

>But in this discussion we ought not to forget that it isn't just a matter of
>rejecting the less probable alternatives. We also have the strongest positive
>case: the empty tomb.

What does that prove?

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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.