Critique of Ra's claim 'anything that can happen will happen given enough time' — this is obviously false and would prove theism if applied consistently.
Ra uses this principle to dismiss prophecies as non-miraculous. Winger shows the principle is neither true nor consistently applied.
Winger offers counterexamples: the USA was not the first to send a human to space (Russia was), so 'given enough time' does not guarantee every possibility is realized. Barack Obama never declared war on Canada. More pointedly: if anything that can happen will happen given enough time, then God — who is at least possible — must also happen, which would commit a skeptic to theism. Winger notes the self-undermining nature of the claim.
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@rootcausesleuth Paul is quoting from Ps 14/53 and assuming he isn’t taking the
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