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Old 05-02-2013, 09:28 AM   #31
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OF COURSE we don't know the answer, but statistically speaking Toto is more likely right than wrong. The more I learn the more likely it is I'll be right.
Do you know what an asymptote is? Or are you aware of Achilles and the Tortoise?
Yes but it doesn't work on a practical level because you can't slow time down in the way that is required. If you are implying that there just isn't enough of the 'right kind' of information to draw meaningful conclusions, I'm not sure how you or I actually can determine if that is true or not.
It was a comment directed to your claim that "The more I learn the more likely it is I'll be right." There can be a natural limit.

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But if I understand your philosophy, it almost seems better to try and not obtain ANY knowledge at all because there is ALWAYS more that can be learned and almost NOTHING in history is for certain. Coins with someone's name on it? Does that prove they were real? No. What if we found Nazareth? Does that prove Jesus came from there? No. Until we have ALL the criteria possible --ie until we know everything -- we should remain agnostic on everything. Since we can never know everything, what's the point in even trying to be right?

A dummy agnostic is right just as often as a genius agnostic.
The functionally false assumption in your last question should caution you against such errors. You should first learn something about what you are attempting to parody.
'Functionally false assumption'. A matter of subjectivity is it not?
If it makes you feel better to vainly attempt to inject subjectivity, then so be it.
I think we all vainly attempt to inject subjectivity, including in the criteria selection, so no one can avoid it.
This is the "we can't help it, so let's embrace it" nihilism that one expects from someone without methodology, but just enough insight to know something is wrong with what they see.
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Old 05-02-2013, 09:31 AM   #32
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A dummy agnostic is right just as often as a genius agnostic.
How often is that? Sources please?
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The existence of "microletters" on ancient Roman coins that refer to Jesus is a claim made by Jerry Vardaman:

http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/...n-roman-coins/

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If Strobel had any skills as a journalist, it's clear that he isn't using them when it comes to Christianity.

He, for example, uses the idea of "micrographic letters" on coins to explain how Jesus could've been born in 4BCE and 6CE (here he is presenting this evidence ina lecture: Strobel Preaching).
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The existence of "microletters" on ancient Roman coins that refer to Jesus is a claim made by Jerry Vardaman:

http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/...n-roman-coins/

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Yes. And Strobel repeats this nonsense. Isn't fact-checking a basic journalistic skill?
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The existence of "microletters" on ancient Roman coins that refer to Jesus is a claim made by Jerry Vardaman:

http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/...n-roman-coins/

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Yes. And Strobel repeats this nonsense. Isn't fact-checking a basic journalistic skill?
Not in religious matters and context it's not. Religion plays by a different set of rules.:huh:
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Vardaman is an ordained Baptist Minister, and the article says that he has lately directed most of his work to those who already believe. Strobel is also a true believer.

The author suggested that Vardaman may have some religious delusions. Microletters help explain hos Jesus could have been born in the Governorship of "a" Quirinius (who ruled around 12 BCE).

I think true believers are clutching at straws when they believe something like "microletters" vindicate the bible.

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Yes. And Strobel repeats this nonsense. Isn't fact-checking a basic journalistic skill?
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