{"id":2554,"date":"2025-04-01T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:56:40","slug":"certainties-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Certainties in Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.<br>Ravioli accidentally bought a book, which turns out to be very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are at the airport, where the scientists are discussing Ravioli&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia: Come on, guys! We&#8217;re in the twenty-first century. We can&#8217;t believe in such superstition. We&#8217;re scientists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Yes! But then, one of these five facts must be false!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: The issue here is that there is evidence, it&#8217;s not a matter of opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia: That&#8217;s true! As scientists, we must follow the evidence. And, in this case, it leads to the resurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: According to the laws of nature, resurrection from the dead, after three days, is impossible. Considering, moreover, that Jesus appeared perfectly healthy and healed from the wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: That&#8217;s true! Those guys died believing their leader had risen from the dead. If he had appeared in bad condition, they would never have believed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: If the natural laws don&#8217;t fully explain reality, and the evidence points to a supernatural explanation, we can&#8217;t dismiss it a priori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia: Maybe all this mess at the airport happened for a good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: Yes\u2026 to teach Papaia that, just like tampered vending machines and ATMs, Ravioli, when he&#8217;s hungry, is suspicious and unreliable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2551\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2557\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.Ravioli accidentally bought a book, which turns out to be very interesting. We are at the airport, where the scientists are discussing Ravioli&#8217;s book. Papaia: Come on, guys! We&#8217;re in the twenty-first century. We can&#8217;t believe in such superstition. We&#8217;re scientists! Banani: Yes! &#8230; <a title=\"Certainties in Question\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2554\" aria-label=\"Read more about Certainties in Question\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}