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Sean Faircloth:
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Not exactly on topic, but related, I have been told by numerous different sources that the speed of light in a vacuum, is approx 300,000 km / second. Now I've never set out to disprove that, but I would like to think that if I took the trouble and invested in the correct equipment etc, I could actually measure the speed of light for myself. I could "test" those anecdotal claims about the speed of light.
When it comes to anecdotal stories about a man walking on water, feeding 5000 with a loaf and a fish, ressurecting the dead, including Himself, then I realise that any such anecdotes are impossible to test. Then I have to go back to the "probability" that such events might actually have happened. In the case of Jesus, this probability approaches very close to zero.
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