June 25, 2008

Preposterous!


"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."

"The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind."

David Hume

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