# Torley Presents Alter's Case Against the Resurrection

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**Created:** [September 24, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/torley-presents-alters-case-against-the-resurrection/1817 "2018-09-24T21:20:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/torley-presents-alters-case-against-the-resurrection/1817/47 "2018-09-29T18:23:26Z")

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> [@swamidass](#):
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> Note the parallel to Creationists objections to “just so” stories? It is precisely the same logic.

Not quite - in this case, you know your story is true, and (by analogy) the Evangelists knew there’s was. If you’d suffered amnesia and reconstructed your origins narrative from your skin colour, your name, and a few other circumstantial details, then there would be some reason to doubt it.

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