Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? Nah.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Examining the slogan "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". It may seem simple and true when you first hear it but when you really think it through it's full of problems. In reality this slogan is often used to keep people from following evidence to things they simply don't want to believe in or things that they don't already believe in. This video will be an attempt to thoughtfully work through this issue in the hopes that it will help people to avoid the subjective confirmation bias that tends to come with the slogan, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I mentioned an upcoming interview with Dr. Tim McGrew on the topic of Extraordinary Events Require Extraordinary Evidence?" on Capturing Christianity's YT channel. I highly recommend you check it out, Dr. McGrew is knowledgeable and explains things well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAA-ypUQnw If you want to partner with me by supporting this ministry please click here. https://biblethinker.org/index.php/donate

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0:00.0	I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking
0:05.8	biblically about everything.
0:07.8	Okay, do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence?
0:17.0	This is a pretty big deal because this slogan, this phrase here, is literally the reason that many people have for rejecting the truth of the
0:26.5	resurrection of Christ. So I wonder what happens if we patiently evaluate the slogan if we just think it through do
0:35.6	extraordinary claims really require extraordinary explanations what if it
0:40.6	turns out that this is not clear thinking that it's not actually good thinking?
0:45.0	So welcome to the Tuesday live stream.
0:47.0	My name is Mike Winger and I do this weekly here on YouTube.
0:50.0	I'm a pastor in Southern California and I do talks on YouTube about theology
0:55.0	and apologetics. In fact, today's all about apologetics next week. We'll be
0:58.7	digging back into some more theology stuff, actually probably for a few weeks
1:01.6	after today. But what we're going to be
1:04.8	doing today is talking about this slogan extraordinary claims require extraordinary
1:09.2	evidence so let me first say if you have questions go ahead and put them in the comment section and the
1:15.7	mods are going to grab those from the live chat I really am live with you right now
1:19.0	this isn't pre-recorded and I will try to answer as many of those questions as I can at the end of the stream.
1:25.6	Just put a cue, you guys know the routine, put a cue at the beginning of your question so we know
1:29.1	it's a question.
1:30.7	But let me start by telling you guys where the slogan came from. This is Carl Sagan.
1:37.0	Carl Sagan was in the 60s. He had a TV show, I think it was just called Cosmos.
1:42.8	I'm trying to remember now.
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