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Originally Posted by sworkhard
Now you sound like a young earth creationist who says, it's only a probability that evolution is true, but we don't really know, so it's possible that it's false and therefore the world is young.
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This actually made me laugh for several minutes. I don't believe Jesus existed at all and that makes me a creationist? Do you realize how silly that is? We have the story today that we know IS NOT TRUE, why add in the 'well, we do know Jesus actually was real, but the 'historians' added the other parts'? If they lied about some, they may have lied about all of it. I believe they made up the story after some major event (perhaps a mass execution of cult followers, but who knows).
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Originally Posted by sworkhard
So you don't really side with Occam's razor. No part of Occam's razor justifies the leap from we don't know very much to therefore it's all false. You might as well be making an argument to irreducible complexity.
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It isn't that we don't know very much, we know lots. In fact, we know 99.99% of the story is false and man made. So, using Occam's Razor, we can assume the entire story can be made up, as that is the simplest explanation.