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BibleThinker

Ricky Gervais Strikes Again

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

What Ricky Gervais is saying here is simultaneously impressive and rather empty. One must recognize that Christianity doesn't claim to be discoverable through repeated experiments. Nor are the truth claims of Christianity dependent on their discoverability through the same means that gravity is discovered. Saying we wouldn't rediscover Christianity through natural sciences is about as impressive as saying we wouldn't discover that chocolate tastes good through geological research. So what? God can be discovered through creation but the details about the Gospel and the death and resurrection of Christ are only made public through direct revelation. Interestingly, we happen to live in a world where exactly that has happened. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

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Science is constantly proved all the time. You see if we take something like any fiction and any holy book in any other fiction and destroyed it, okay, in a thousand years time that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, right,

0:14.0

and every fact and destroyed them all,

0:16.2

in a thousand years, they'd all be back

0:17.8

because all the same tests would be the same result.

0:20.4

That's good.

0:21.7

This is one of those like gotcha statements that you hear from people that doesn't actually mean much of anything.

0:27.7

Because Christianity has never purported to be a religion that can be fully discovered through like human investigation of

0:36.2

natural causes. It's never purported to be that. So it proves nothing to say that

0:40.8

you wouldn't discover it in the way you didn't initially

0:43.0

discover it that that's that that doesn't say that now would God be

0:46.2

rediscovered if you could erase everyone's knowledge of God absolutely God

0:49.8

would be rediscovered people would be out there theorizing about God's existence and arguing

0:54.2

from the a bunch of different reasons to believe God exists and they've done this many

0:58.8

times in many ways. But would the would the truth about like say Abraham be rediscovered Isaac

1:05.3

would scripture somehow come back together? No. Not in this hypothetical where it was

1:10.7

all just suddenly erased not apart from a miraculous work of God

1:14.6

Would it come together? The point is that this just doesn't prove anything Ricky Gervais is just it's a it's just a

1:20.8

silly gotcha statement. Now there's more I can say on this which is that science

1:27.3

it rose in a human history not by default it's not like humans were always going to come up with a scientific method and

1:37.0

then start to push the boundaries of it and understand science better and better.

1:41.5

It could have happened much, much longer in the past.

1:45.4

It arose when it did, partly because Christianity provided an environment and a philosophy

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