Assertion: extraordinary claim | /r/Desires | extraordinary evidence
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text: Personally, except for a few qualifications, I agree with the sentiment of the statement "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
text: To say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence is to make an extraordinary assertion.
text: With an atheist, for example, the presupposition that God does not exist means that the extraordinary claim of Christ's resurrection requires extraordinary evidence but Alexander the Great's world conquest does not, yet both are extraordinary claims of history.
text: Therefore, people will not want what Christ said to be true and will sometimes desperately try to hold onto their presuppositions; hence, the claim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
text: Nevertheless, when defending the Bible and dealing with the claim that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," address the following issues.