Posted: Jan 30, 2012 3:31 am
quas wrote:Lion IRC wrote:I think the time machine scenario can be denied for the same reason as atheists reject the resurrection scenario.
Presented with apparently conflicting evidence, the strong Christian is going to look for the "best explanation" why things didnt happen at the tomb as expected - especially if that person has stronger evidence that the time machine scenario cant be true.
Did the time machine get the date right? Is the time machine just a virtual reality simulator? An Augmented Reality App? Are time machines - miraculous time machines - even possible?
"FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, let's pretend that a time machine is built..."
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Yes, yes. I understand it's a pretend scenario.
Do you understand that the reaction I proposed to that pretend scenario was ALSO speculation?
One valid reaction in trying to best explain what one was observing could be that the time machine got the date wrong.
It could also be possible and quite reasonable to speculate about alternative sum-over-history realities in which the time machine was not "really" visiting the same point in space/time but one reserved by God for smart aleck's with hypothetical time machines?