Flann 5 wrote:Robert Tulip wrote:
1. A man walked on water, was born from a virgin and came back from the dead.
2. Old stories evolved from one culture to the next.
Which is bizarre?
This thread is all about aggressively attacking the second statement, in order to defend the first.
…On theism the first statement is not absurd at all. You merely appeal to your naturalistic presuppositions as though these were proven which they certainly are not.
No Flann, you don’t get it.
Naturalistic presuppositions, which inform the coherence of all modern knowledge, cannot be proved, but are assumed a priori, as necessary conditions of experience. We cannot prove the universe exists but we assume it as an axiom that makes elegant sense.
Science assumes the universe exists and that matter/energy obeys consistent coherent laws of physics.
Anyone who suggests events that conflict with observed and corroborated universal laws of physics is indeed guilty of absurdity, despite your bizarre statement to the contrary. As Hume argued, it is far more likely that you are wrong or deceptive than that any alleged miracles actually occurred.
Massey and similar writers explain how study of the evolution of myth applies the same causal principles used by Darwin in biology. But your criticism of Massey is nothing more than ‘stop the world I want to get off’.