{"id":2941,"date":"2025-04-06T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:14:10","slug":"a-matter-of-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of Assumptions."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor, who are supposed to attend the famous dark matter conference, take the wrong flight and end up on the other side of the world. After arriving at the wrong airport, they book a hotel to spend the night, but it\u2019s not exactly what they expected\u2026 in the sense that it\u2019s awful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re on the hotel stairs, where the four are making their way up, discussing the book Banani found on the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They continue their discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Okay, but what about the supernatural events? Did they really happen, or did the authors exaggerate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: That\u2019s the central issue. All the evidence shows that the authors weren\u2019t lying or exaggerating. But in the end, it\u2019s up to the reader to decide whether to believe it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Kind of like the resurrection of Jesus, which that book of yours talked about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: Exactly! It all depends on our assumptions\u2014are we open to the possibility of the supernatural or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: But with the cosmological argument, we\u2019ve seen that the universe itself needs a supernatural cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: Right! It\u2019s as if all these arguments are pieces of the same puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Very interesting\u2026 A detective analyzing the Gospels. Who better than him to study our case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: Wait, I\u2019ll send you the file via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Ah, here it is! It\u2019s already on my phone. Thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia: I don\u2019t know how you guys can think while climbing all these stairs. With all this effort, I can\u2019t even remember my own name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: You don\u2019t need stairs to forget your name\u2014just call your bank\u2019s customer service, and you\u2019ll forget who you are, where you are, and what you were even looking for!<\/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=2938\">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=2944\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor, who are supposed to attend the famous dark matter conference, take the wrong flight and end up on the other side of the world. After arriving at the wrong airport, they book a hotel to spend the night, but it\u2019s not exactly what they expected\u2026 in the sense &#8230; <a title=\"A Matter of Assumptions.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2941\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Matter of Assumptions.\">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-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","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=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}