A couple of weeks ago my ministry hosted an online discussion (voice/text/vid) about the merits of the skeptical mantra, “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence.”
One of my objections is right to the point: any notion of what makes something ‘extraordinary’ is hopelessly subjective. I for one find it deliciously ironic that our hyper-rationalistic scientific minded atheist friends so easily adopt such a weak standard for evaluating claims. To measure the temperature of water, we’d use a thermometer. For air pressure, a barometer. These are scientific tools used by scientific minds; I’ve never seen an instrument that can measure extraordinariness.
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