"Christian apologists who argue that a story about……" — David G. McAfee
"Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required."
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15 Quotes by David G. McAfee
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If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to…
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If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good…
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Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal…
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If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it.…
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Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny…
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Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something…
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Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would),…
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Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods…
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It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts…
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We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced…
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If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be…
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I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should…
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