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Originally Posted by Sliver
This is where a religious bias is not helpful to scholarly study. A scholarly study on religion should check any bias at the door, religious or atheist. The goal of the offshoot I wish existed would be an objective study of religious claims.
It is beyond easy to prove a virgin cannot give birth to a god. This is absolutely undebateable. Just ask a grade five sexual education student how a baby is made if you need proof.  |
In usual terms, alright I'll give you that but throw a god that's able to do anything into the mix and it becomes not impossible... unless you're sitting on hard factual proof that god does not and has never existed.
"We have no proof of this story beyond a 2000 year old account that was received in a vision to a poor carpenter and was then passed down orally for about 100 years before being written down. We have no proof of such an event repeating itself since." That, IMO, is perfectly acceptable way of putting it. Maybe follow that up with a nice game of 'telephone' to see how a message can get lost being passed around a classroom... never mind passed around for 100 years.
Nobody took a side one way or another but simply laid out the facts we have regarding the story, however improbable it may be, and let the students decide for themselves.