Did Jesus really rise from the dead or were the disciples victims of a collective delusion?

A lot of Christians say the resurrection happened because groups of people saw the risen Jesus

after his death.

But Skeptics claim that groups of people see all sorts of things that don't

exist. For example, on the Joe Roggan podcast, the intelligent design advocate Stephen Meyer

brought up witnesses reporting Jesus's resurrection.

He records the basic facts of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth,

including being crucified under Pontius Pilate.

And then that there were reports that he had been, that he had appeared to many after being resurrected.

So there's a whole... Right, but there's reports of Bigfoot.

Well, right, but we have... You know? of like Bigfoot or other cases of unreliable eyewitness testimony.

I'll cut to the chase, it's fact. But to see why it is, let's compare the

sightings of the risen Jesus by the disciples to other strange incidents starting with Bigfoot

sightings. Most cultures have folklore about wild men or hairy men who inhabit

wilderness areas, some of which may be based on encounters with

hermits or feral human beings. In some of these accounts the men are

described as ape or primate-like creatures such as the Nepalese Yeti, the Floridian skunk ape, and of course

Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch. The name Bigfoot was coined in 1958 by Northern California Loggers who noticed large foot tracks in the mud

that they attributed to a large creature that was doing things like moving heavy barrels around.

Are sightings of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion as

dismissable as sightings of Bigfoot? Even academic critics use Bigfoot

sightings to reject claims about Jesus' resurrection.

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