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=== Historicity of Jesus ===

=== Historicity of Jesus ===

: ''Main Article: [[Historicity of Jesus]]''

: ''Main Article: [[Historicity of Jesus]]''

[[Jesus Christ]] is the Best-attested Figure in all of human history. If any part of His life did not take place as stated, then the Bible is false. No one has yet shown that the Bible misrepresents any part of Jesus' story.

[[Jesus Christ]] is the best-attested Figure in all of human history. If any part of His life did not take place as stated, then the Bible is false. No one has yet shown that the Bible misrepresents any part of Jesus' story.

More to the point, Prof. Peter Stoner at Westmont College once calculated the probability that any one man could, by sheer coincidence, fulfill forty-eight of the more than 400 prophecies about Jesus Christ, written centuries earlier. The probability turns out to be 10^-157. That's a 1 followed by 157 zeroes. That's one in ten thousand quinquagintillion, according to the American system of large numbers--higher than the ''square'' of the estimated total number of [[electron]]s in the [[universe]].

More to the point, Prof. Peter Stoner at Westmont College once calculated the probability that any one man could, by sheer coincidence, fulfill forty-eight of the more than 400 prophecies about Jesus Christ, written centuries earlier. The probability turns out to be 10^-157. That's a 1 followed by 157 zeroes. That's one in ten thousand quinquagintillion, according to the American system of large numbers--higher than the ''square'' of the estimated total number of [[electron]]s in the [[universe]].

== Extraterrestrial life ==

== Extraterrestrial life ==

: Main Article: ''[[Essay: Extraterrestrial Life and the Bible]]''

: Main Article: ''[[Essay: Extraterrestrial Life and the Bible]]''

If extraterrestrial civilizations be shown to exist or have existed, whether or not they are visiting or have ever visited the [[earth]], then the Bible is shown to be false and the creation story unreliable. [[Carl Sagan]] and others have tried. None have shown extraterrestrial civilizations convincingly. Of all the [[exoplanet]]s so far found (nearly 200), all have been gas giants, like [[Jupiter]]; none has even approximated the makeup of earth. More stringently yet, the [[Sun]] lies in a "habitable zone" barely wider than the margin between its own peri[[apsis]] and apo[[apsis]] with respect to the [[galaxy]]'s core. Where an ET civilization is supposed to have come from is therefore more problematic than ever.

If extraterrestrial civilizations are shown to exist or have existed, whether or not they are visiting or have ever visited the [[earth]], then the Bible is shown to be false and the creation story unreliable. [[Carl Sagan]] and others have tried. None have shown extraterrestrial civilizations convincingly. Of all the [[exoplanet]]s so far found (nearly 200), all have been gas giants, like [[Jupiter]]; none has even approximated the makeup of earth. More stringently yet, the [[Sun]] lies in a "habitable zone" barely wider than the margin between its own peri[[apsis]] and apo[[apsis]] with respect to the [[galaxy]]'s core. Where an ET civilization is supposed to have come from is therefore more problematic than ever.

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