Comments on: Podcast #9 - Galileo http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/american-freethought-podcast-9/ "All Necessities Provided; All Anxieties Tranquilized; All Boredom Amused" Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Traveler http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/american-freethought-podcast-9/#comment-649 Traveler Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:27:43 +0000 http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/american-freethought-podcast-9/#comment-649 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. 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.

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