American Freethought Podcast #9
Galileo Galilei - An exploration of his life and influence, including an interview with UNLV professor Dr. Maurice A. Finocchiaro (author of Retrying Galileo); a discussion of the recent controversy involving Pope Benedict XVI (whose 1990 speech defending the Inquisition has come back to bite him in the cassock); and a special musical contribution by singer/songwriter Ellis Paul from his album Essentials.
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Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll. Recorded 1/30/2008.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I have to take issue with the logic you used when talking about the impossibility of God stopping the Sun in the sky for Joshua. You aren’t the first skeptic that I’ve heard use the argument that if God stopped Earth’s rotation everything that wasn’t nailed down would have gone flying. While that would certainly be the case if some natural force were able to stop the rotation, you just can’t apply logic and natural laws to the study of an alleged miracle. A god powerful enough to pull off the stopping of the rotation of the Earth shouldn’t have any problem with also stopping the rotation of the things on the Earth’s surface.
There’s no refuting miracles. If you find a hole in the story’s logic, the proponent can just make the miracle 1% larger. Since the story’s plausibility is already zero, adding a few more details doesn’t hurt the plausibility at all.