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Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
Oxford University professor Richard Swinburne, a leading philosopher of religion, has seemingly done the impossible. Using logic and mathematics, he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father, report The Age and Catholic News.
This stunning conclusion was made based on a series of complex calculations grounded in the following logic:
1. The probably of God's existence is one in two. That is, God either exists or doesn't.
2. The probability that God became incarnate, that is embodied in human form, is also one in two.
3. The evidence for God's existence is an argument for the resurrection.
4. The chance of Christ's resurrection not being reported by the gospels has a probability of one in 10.
5. Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true.
He forgot to factor in the probability that the whole story could be a work of fiction, or at the very least an extreme exaggeration. His name must really be Richard Swindleburne, because he sure left the obvious out of his "calculations". 
Going by his logic...
1. Either Zeus exists or he doesn't, so the probability of him existing is 1 in 2.
2. The probability that Zeus had a son named Herakles is also 1 in 2.
3. The evidence for Zeus' existence is an argument for Herakles having gone through the 12 tribulations.
4. The chance of Herakles' 12 tribulations not being talked about has a probability of 1 in 10.
5. Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the 12 tribulations of Herakles are not true.
Talk about pulling arbitrary numbers out of one's ass! 
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
I, for one, would love to see that poll... better yet, let's just ask them if they saw it. Oh, that's right, they've been dead for quite a while now, so we can't really ask them; plus none of the authors were even around at the time it supposedly happened, so none of them could have possibly been giving first-hand accounts of anything anyway. 
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
hahaha.... who would have ever thought that it is all explained mathematically....LOL
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
People rationalizing their subservience... gross!
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
But is he trying to rationalize his own faith, or is he simply trying to recruit? Either way, I would expect even a non-mathematician to be able to see how he pulled those random numbers out of his ass.
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4/10/2007, 5:46 pm
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
God did not create man in his own image, man created god in his own image. But does that make him any less real? 
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
No, he can't be any less real than he already is. 
Figuratively speaking though, he's real in the minds of many, and belief in God can help people accomplish things, if they also work for them. But that's really no different than keeping a positive attitude and being persistent, which is just as powerful for us naturalists.
On the other end of the spectrum, belief in God can cause other people to not accomplish things, if they only pray for good things to happen and don't actually work for them.
Then there is the matter of supernatural beliefs making their way into our very real laws. Because large groups of people believe certain things are abominable sins, we have laws against them — harming people rather than helping them.
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Wow. That's just plain sad. I mean, I believe in God, but not for such stupid "numerical" reasons. Seriously, people like that need to take a REAL science class at some point, because they're just embassassing the rest of us!
1. The probably of God's existence is one in two. That is, God either exists or doesn't.
According to this, the probability I ate a hamburger for lunch today is ALSO 1 in 2. That completely neglects the fact that I normally eat sandwiches of course. *sigh* There's a BIG difference between the number of possible outcomes and the likelihood of those outcomes.
I liked your Zeus analogy, Lesigner. 
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Re: Math Proves Christ's Resurrection?
Thanks, Reythia.
I could've summed up the error in his "logic" with one sentence, actually...
Either I'll win the lotto tomorrow or I won't.
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