(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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Hope you got to the radio show on time.
I will be sort of live blogging from this event if anyone who is interested cannot make it. I will certainly create 4 summaries of each talk and post a few minutes after each talk. I am investigating more real live blogging tools and might try them tomorrow too.
See No Double Standards (tomorrow)
PS I am guessing Stephen won't mind me promoting this here as he is helping arrange for me to do the live blog.
Great event and a good talk by you. Here is a list of reviews of Weird Science.
Martin