Why People Sometimes Disagree About the Evidence for Christianity
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner examines the difference between evidence and inference in an effort to clarify the role that evidence plays in forming a conclusion. Why is it that two people can look at the same evidence yet come to two different conclusions? What other factors are involved in the decision-making process? What do people mean when they say something is "settled science" and is this term used correctly by the culture? How do these issues impact the way we present and consider the case for Christianity?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective. |
| 0:07.0 | Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:12.0 | His work has been featured on Fox News, |
| 0:14.4 | Court TV, and Dateline. For more information about Jim's work and the case for |
| 0:19.6 | Christianity, please visit coldcase Christianity.com. Now here's your host Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks for joining us at cold case Christianity. I'm Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:32.0 | This week I want to talk about something that has a tendency to drive |
| 0:35.4 | me crazy as I watch and kind of listen to media reports on any number of issues |
| 0:40.6 | and that is a language issue how we sometimes use language of does God exist? Or the truth of Christian Theism is Christianity true? We have to be careful |
| 0:55.4 | the kinds of words we use. And I often will hear people on both sides of the issue use words |
| 1:00.6 | in a way that isn't really, is not really helpful. And so what I want to do is talk about a use we can use the rules of evidence and the kinds of rules I use in criminal |
| 1:15.1 | investigations to help us think clearly about whether a particular |
| 1:19.4 | claim is true and the biggest distinction I'll put on the screen here for you is the |
| 1:24.0 | distinction that I see between facts and inferences. |
| 1:30.0 | I will tell you that I read consistently over and over and over again and we are in a highly contentious age would you agree in which we are both politically divided, |
| 1:39.0 | ideologically divided, culturally divided. I will hear one side or the other say something is a fact, |
| 1:46.6 | when in fact it's not a fact, it's an inference they're talking about from a fact. |
| 1:52.3 | There are two distinctions here. You know at crime scenes we see |
| 1:56.2 | evidence in our crime scene and that evidence that draws us to a certain conclusion. |
| 2:03.2 | We make conclusions based on the evidence we see in crime scenes. |
| 2:07.7 | And then I form a case based on what I think is true from the evidence I see in the case related to how this |
| 2:14.6 | particular crime occurred or whatever suspect was involved in this crime and of |
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