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Q: How can I believe that Jesus performed miracles?

Q: Look, I’ve heard all kinds of tall tales. So the miracle stories in the Bible must be tall tales too, right?

A: That just seems like an excuse to avoid studying the evidence. It’s poor reasoning in any case.

Q: How so?

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Extraordinary claims do not require extraordinary evidence

In discussions about the resurrection of Jesus, it’s often claimed that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (ECREE). Is this claim true? A few months ago the BBC website  covered an uncanny and singular event in Sri Lanka, where  a hen gave birth to a chick without an egg.

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