Here's a weird question:Would it alter christian faith much, if it were historically illustrated(demonstrable) that jesus never literally existed?
Without Jesus, there is no Christian faith; He is the foundation of the Christian faith.
One of the intriguing things about the video links I posted the other day, is the surprising number of mythological deities who have checklists of exactly the same items listed above. Including virgin birth and rising from the dead on the third day and ascending into heaven, etc. etc.Fascinating stuff, from my perspective anyway. Regards,quadz
DaHanG, the evidence is in your own life experience.
And also, you can address some of what I said earlier about intelligent design, specifically the fact that we're programmed to assume other people are very similar, and that we're programmed to assume we can predict what's going to happen in the universe.
The statement about being similar and assuming similarity is pretty obvious. How is it that I make assumptions about other people having similar needs (water, food, shelter, etc), why would I automatically assume other people have a conscience, why would I assume what a human would look like?
On the second part, you don't realize what I'm saying. Animals usually learn about the world by repeated coincidence, (example: moving and monitoring sensory changes). Why would I be programmed to learn by repeated coincidence if nothing were designed to be predictable?
What if you've never seen your own face before? We assume what a human face is like based on programming, and thus make other assumptions.
"The universe is predictable, that's why."Not very enlightening to me. That's like saying "The earth is round because it's round".
No, I still disagree with the first point. And another similar example, how do you know a girl is sexually attractive? Is it by programmed understanding that particular features of the mature female body suggest they are capable of reproduction? That would seem to be the case from all my experience. You can just draw a mature girl's body, and feel sexually aroused by the drawing.
"the reason the universe is the way it is is not known", that would seem to indicate only your lack of understanding here, and not everyone else's understanding.
"still a flawed argument - who designed the designer?"Why does a designer need to be designed?
Did you notice how those sentences conflicted with each other? "No, that statement applies to all of humankind""If there is someone who claims to know.."