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Old 09-15-2007, 07:11 PM   #11
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I read the first chapter at Amazon. The "Principle of Analogy" was unintelligible to me. Maybe I am slow. Does anybody understand that part?
The "principle of analogy" is evangelical-speak for the idea that the past is like the present, and since we do not see any miracles happening today, we can infer that there were no miracles 2000 years ago.
Thanks. I had found the rest of the chapter to be pretty pathetic, but had simply not heard of that term, and was wondering if it was some kind of straw man.
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