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In Christian apologetics, the argument from undesigned coincidences aims to support the historical reliability of the Bible.So named by J.J. Blunt, based on previous work by William Paley, [1] [2] an undesigned coincidence is said to have occurred when an account of one event in the Bible omits a piece or pieces of information which is filled in, seemingly coincidentally, by a different ...
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William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, which made use of the watchmaker analogy.
Some quite famous coincidences weren’t even mentioned in this list. For example, the one about the writer Mark Twain and the comet. He was born on November 30, 1835, when Halley’s comet came ...
In his chief book, Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testaments (1833; fuller edition, 1847), he coined the term undesigned coincidences. Some of his writings, among them the History of the Christian Church during the First Three Centuries and the lectures On the Right Use of the Early Fathers , were published ...
Jennifer Lopez has admitted there are "no coincidences" in life as the pop star revealed how she deals with "hardships.". Lopez, 55, found a way to "embrace" life lessons in the wake of her ...
A causality example is to strike a cue ball with a pool stick to make it move. The result is expected and has no meaning. A coincidence example is two friends from the same town finding each other at the same time in the town's library without any planning. The result is unexpected yet has no meaning (significance).
Image credits: Cambs police Karsten Börner , captain of the Dutch vessel, reveals that “it all happened in really little time” and that the Bayesian sank in “a few minutes” after it was hit.