# Loke: Investigating the Resurrection

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/loke-investigating-the-resurrection/10635>\
**Category:** Peaceful Science\
**Tags:** Philosophy\
**Created:** [May 4, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/loke-investigating-the-resurrection/10635 "2020-05-04T15:07:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rumraket](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/rumraket/32/9328_2.png) [@Rumraket](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Rumraket)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/loke-investigating-the-resurrection/10635/58 "2020-05-20T14:59:38Z")

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> [@Andrew\_Loke](#):
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> You simply assert that God does not exist without responding to the arguments I presented in my book. This is the same basic error made by many atheists that I have already encountered. I did not assume that atheists believe God exists. Rather, my point is, by making assertions without replying to arguments, many atheists are refusing to consider the evidences for God.

If you’re going to invoke the resurrection as evidence for God’s existence, we first need to try to estimate the probability that the resurrection even occurred. The form of the argument seems to be something like the following:  
Only if A is the case(God exists) and for no other reason, would we expect B to be the case(the resurrection occurred). B _is_ the case(the resurrection occurred), hence A(God exists) must be the case.

Now obviously you can’t just say that the resurrection is likely to have occurred because God exists. And God is likely to exist, because the resurrection is likely to have occurred. That would be straightforward circular reasoning.

As an atheist I obviously don’t grant the premise that God’s existence is likely. Hence if you want to show me that God exists by appealing to the resurrection, you need to show first that the resurrection even occurred, and that only if God exists is that likely to have occurred.

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