Kishkumen wrote:I mean, if you have faith in it being historically ancient, then fine, but this entire conversation seems to me to be silly. One also can't disprove Scientology's cosmology and the existence of Xenu, but why waste one's time on such a snipe hunt?
That cuts to the heart of the matter. There are very few things in life that we are deductively certain about, and the mindset in Mopologetics appears to be that there is a comfort zone found in the margins, as long as it is possible, it has merit for intellectual assent.
What a Bayesian analysis shows, is that Mopologists want nothing to do with a potential framework that forces them to risk something. With the epistemological probabilities, they are forced to give numbers to things people within the Church take for granted, and this is not acceptable.
Mopologetics is no longer safe on the margins of possibility, and the best defense they have is to ignore the threat and hope it doesn’t catch on.