Archaeology of the New Testament

[Into the Night]

Yes they are.

Nope. Theories are not knowledge. They are explanatory arguments.

The theory of general relativity is a type of knowledge.

Nope. It is an explanatory argument.

The theory of plate tectonics is a type of knowledge.

Nope. It is an explanatory argument.

Knowledge doesn't have to be true.

Knowledge has not True or False. It simply is.

It just has to be justified by evidence or logic. Knowledge for the most part is always provisional.

Knowledge is not provisional. It simply is. It does not have to be justified by anything.

Evidence is not a proof. It is only evidence. ALL observations are subject to the problems of phenomenology.
Logic is not evidence. Logic is a closed functional system like mathematics.

 

[Into the Night]

There are no surviving eyewitness accounts of Alexander the Great, the Persian Emperor Xerxes, or Chandragupta founder of the Mauryan Empire.

The reports we have of them were written long after these dudes were dead.

But there are eyewitnesses.