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Can a physicist understand a miracle? Sir Charles Babbage thought so. . . Estimating that 1000,000,000,000 people have died without rising from the dead and that Christs witnesses told an average of one lie for every ten truths, Babbage calculated the number of witnesses necessary to verify the resurrection to be 24. Laplaces law of succession: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession Definition of joint probability: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_probability_distribution Humes criterion for a miracle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle#David_Hume Charles Babbage, The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment (Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Blanchard, 1841)
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 07:21:19 +0000

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