The Case Against Miracles 1839190086, 9781839190087
For as long as the idea of “miracles” has been in the public sphere, the conversation about them has been shaped exclusi
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Table of contents :
Foreword: On Miracles and Truth
By Michael Shermer
Introduction
Part 1: Miracles and the Abject Failure of Christian Apologetics
1| Miracles and the Challenge of Apologetics
By David Corner
2| God Would Not Perform Miracles
By Matt McCormick
3| Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
By John W. Loftus
4| Properly Investigating Miracle Claims
By Darren M. Slade
5| Assessing Keener’s Miracles
By Edward T. Babinski
6| The Abject Failure of Christian Apologetics
By John W. Loftus
7| Why Do Christians Believe in Miracles?
By Valerie Tarico
Part 2: Properly Investigating the Miracle of Biblical Revelation
8| Why the Romans Believed the Gospels
By R. G. Price
9| How New Testament Writers Helped Jesus Fulfill Prophecy
By Robert J. Miller
10| The Prophetic Failure of Christ’s Return
By Robert Conner
11| Five Inconvenient Truths that Falsify Biblical Revelation
By David Madison, PhD
Part 3: Properly Investigating Key Biblical Miracles
12| Evolution is a Fact!
By Abby Hafer
13| Old Testament Miracle Genres as Folklore and Legend
By Randall Heskett
14| Science, Miracles and Noah’s Flood
By Clay Farris Naff
15| Jesus Christ: Docetic Demigod
By Robert M. Price
16| Miracles of the Christian Magicians
By Robert Conner
17| Credulity At Cana?
By Evan Fales
18| The Resurrection of Jesus Never Took Place
by John Loftus
19| Paul’s Christianity
By Robert Conner
Epilogue
Appendix: Hume On Proof and Mathematical Probability
by John W. Loftus
About the contributing Authors
