Reading Time: 2 minutes This objection does not so much question the evidence for a miracle, but wonders how we trace it to God. This objection is raised in various ways: Events do not come with name tags identifying their cause, so, short of such signature, how could we ever know God performed it? Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Science must assume all events have natural causes. A scientist would affirm that even if there were good evidence that a dead man had been seen later, this would have to be explained in a natural manner. This objection could be dealt with using one or more theories from psychological Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes If God exists, he is not stronger than the laws of nature, or he may choose not to act in the world. This might be the position of a deist and it’s also held by one who thinks God is unable to overrule his own laws. These aren’t naturalistic positions Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The claim: Science will one day explain everything, so we don’t need a God” says the naturalist. God is just everything a culture cannot understand. This is the God of the gaps theory. For example, prior to an understanding of weather, some described thunder and lightning as the audible voice Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1. What science has shown is that a person cannot rise from the dead through natural causes. But this does not apply to Jesus because we are not claiming he rose naturally. Perhaps someone will ask: “What is more probable, that Jesus rose from the dead or that he did Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes This is the view that scientific research is the only way of achieving new knowledge—Miracles do not pass the test they claim. There is no way to verify Jesus rose from the dead, since science doesn’t have the tools to verify such an event. This objection has a few ways Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Naturalism views the natural world as the sum of reality, usually holding that scientific investigation is the best, or even the only path to knowledge and that only material phenomena are real. Those holding this view deny the supernatural realm. God cannot be tested empirically (by observation or experiment). Some Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is something you will hear a lot, it’s got some origins in Hume’s literature. But we won’t get into that here, I’ve got a powerpoint for that. Sceptics cite that, the more radical claim, the stronger the requirement for evidence to justify belief. This would be the case with Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes So the accusation is that reports of the resurrection are no more believable than today’s reports of Elvis and alien sightings, why accept the resurrection but reject these such facts? Let’s take the Elvis sightings like Christ issue first. It is possible to find people who believe there is no Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Like Jesus’ apostles, Smith willingly died for his beliefs. If willingness to suffer indicates truth of Jesus’ disciples, why not accept Joseph Smith’s testimony? 1. While all the apostles were willing to suffer and die for their beliefs, 6 of the 11 witnesses to Joseph Smith’s golden plates left the Read more…