(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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixow5LZh5rs
To tell the truth the total awesomeness of the drum wasn't entirely obvious to me! ("Eh? It's a drum. Sounds a lot like...er..a drum." etc. etc.)
Mat - thanks for link. I am trying to work the Purdie shuffle into set list (maybe Steely Dan's "Home At Last")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0VlzJeNvA
Billy Martins drums as part of Medeski Martin & Wood on John Scofields album “A Go Go”.
the word “wood” definitely comes to mind. SO i can well
understand why you should be excited about that snare.
Happy Birthday
Regards,
Dan
By the way Brady is a small Australian company that hand-builds drums out of native hardwoods. It's kind of cool they read noticed this post and sent me a happy birthday message.
A reviewer suggested an aquarian satin head and canopus vintage dry snare wires on this drum, so I tried and they improved the sound even more. But will any one else notice £50 worth of improvement? I am guessing not.
A Go Go is a great album.
But if the player ( you ) really does notice the sonic difference that is arguably going to positively effect how you play, and THAT the punter will hear.
On a related note - i’ve been noticing something of a correlation between atheism ( or to be precise atheist bloggers, personalities ) and “muso"-ness.
Many times i’ve heard of ex christians such as Dan Barker being heavily into the church music thing.
LukeProg at “CommonSenseAtheism” seems to have a very broad and cool taste in music ( dont know if he plays ).
Could there something about the brain of a musician that makes him more likely to be a sceptic ?
Just some thoughts,
Dan