tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post2664021000953062195..comments2024-01-04T11:40:48.827-06:00Comments on Dr Michael G Strauss: The Gospels, Historians, and PresuppositionsMichael G Strausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11580842374977938870noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-40569078595232550922021-01-17T12:08:17.764-06:002021-01-17T12:08:17.764-06:00Excellent explanation of a priori as opposed to po...Excellent explanation of a priori as opposed to post priori probability of any statistical event. I recall from Dr. Burwell's undergrad Nuclear Physics (text by Dr. Howard, the then Chairman at OU) classical explanation of tunneling as a very small single instance probability made possible by a huge number of instances/second. Then I received further education at the M.S. level by Dr. Harry Lass (his book on Tensor Analysis is almost comprehensible by normal human beings). Harry was Gell-Mann's go to mathematicians at Cal Tech/JPL and a demanding instructor.<br /><br />Clarifying this difference in the context of presuppositions and bias is very important in apologetics writ large.<br /><br />The big bang is the consensus scientific view for the existence of the universe. It had a definable point of beginning. There is no recorded effect in human experience that does not have an antecedent cause. Like all the other miracles in scripture the effect ( blindness to sight, withered hand to whole, cripples to mobile, etc.) if attributed to a variety of possible explanations of cause they fail by both theoretical and experiential methods of analysis. Thus the only cause lies outside the methods available to the known laws of physics, mathematics and science writ large. In such cases the best explanation, most probable, is that OF an agent acting outside such laws as the cause of the observed effect. A strictly rational analysis should conclude a "miracle" is the only remaining explanation. I conclude that a priori one should say a miracle is the least likely explanation of an observed event, but after through examination of all the data be intellectually honest and conclude a miracle is the most likely if not certain explanation with a cause originating ultimately from an agent outside our universe.<br /><br />I appreciate your ministry to the believing and unbelieving community.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219283160015859565noreply@blogger.com