Faith, Fantasy, and Physics
Want to give your eyes a break? Click the link to have this article read to you. Responding to the Global Center for Religious Research's Objection to the Resurrection “To anyone who studies abduction—the method of reasoning known as “inference to the best explanation”—this shouldn’t be surprising. Supernatural explanations never fare well against their competitors because, by their very nature, they don’t meet the criteria of adequacy. They invoke inexplicable extra supernatural assumptions that are contrary to the laws of science and are thus, by definition, non-simple, unconservative, and have little scope. Indeed, Ted Schick has argued that (given what explanations must do) “God did it” can never be an adequate explanation of anything, and I have argued that the same is true for “a miracle occurred.” Since the resurrection would have been a miracle caused by God, it is no wonder that it fails so monumentally at being a good explanation. B...