Q&A: Fire-breathing dragon analogy — why the resurrection is not analogous to fantastic claims
Viewer tests the slogan with a car vs. dragon analogy.
Viewer presents the classic skeptic analogy: I need little evidence to believe you own a car, but much more to believe you own a fire-breathing dragon. Mike's response: (1) the dragon analogy fails because it imagines someone making a bare, unsupported claim; (2) the resurrection case is built on a large and complex stack of historical evidence — not just someone saying "Jesus rose"; (3) the comparison only works if you treat the resurrection as a bare assertion with no supporting case, which is not how the evidence actually stands.
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