(Published in Faith and Philosophy 2011. Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2011. Stephen Law. Pages 129-151) EVIDENCE, MIRACLES AND THE EXISTENCE OF JESUS Stephen Law Abstract The vast majority of Biblical historians believe there is evidence sufficient to place Jesus’ existence beyond reasonable doubt. Many believe the New Testament documents alone suffice firmly to establish Jesus as an actual, historical figure. I question these views. In particular, I argue (i) that the three most popular criteria by which various non-miraculous New Testament claims made about Jesus are supposedly corroborated are not sufficient, either singly or jointly, to place his existence beyond reasonable doubt, and (ii) that a prima facie plausible principle concerning how evidence should be assessed – a principle I call the contamination principle – entails that, given the large proportion of uncorroborated miracle claims made about Jesus in the New Testament documents, we should, in the absence of indepen
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Have you read David Grinspoon's "Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy Of Alien Life"? Grinspoon is a serious astrophysicist - he's the world's leading expert on the planet Venus - so he's not a loony.
Grinspoon is based in the US, unfortunately.
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Good choices would be Philip Mantle, Gary Heseltine, Timothy Good, but my personal first choice would probably be....
Robert Rosamond
The link will take you to an article he wrote a ways back.
Pope is overdone right now. He even has started sounding bored with himself...and the questions posed to him.
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Alternatively, in Australia there is Professor Ross Taylor who was the geochemist to first analyze the moon rocks of the Apollo missions. He has a book called Destiny or Chance which argues the difficulty of making Earth like Planets and thus extra terrestrial life! Great for background research and if you can get him Ross’s friend, Harrison (Jack) Schmidt the last Apollo astronaut and the first geologist on the moon.
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