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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (410020)8/24/2008 4:14:48 PM
From: combjelly   of 1577389
 
"As do I, and I see it in you daily."

Projection again, i-node.

"By your definition, ANY history other than autobiography is extrapolation, which is, of course, silly."

No. You are not applying RAA correctly in this case.

"The best evidence is contemporaneous written record."

Only if it is written by the people involved or by ones who knew them. And that may not be the case with any of the written records. It can be argued in good faith that none of the Gospels were written by the people who are credited with them. Josephus, who is the one with the most credibility, never actually met Jesus, having been born after the Crucifixion, and very well may have been a convert to Christianity.

"If written record isn't contemporaneous"

Which none of it was.

"all things being equal, that developed nearest the event is the best evidence."

Some of the Gospels may have been written as late as a century after the Crucifixion. The earliest might have been 3 decades after the fact, but very well could have been later.
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