Hallucination is pretty definitely a bad theory - we can actually look at that one with Science (tm) and see how hallucinations present themselves in human beings generally, and there is a resounding lack of similar mass hallucinations than the one you would need to explain the resurrection appearances if you accept the Epistles as a decent account of the available eye-witnesses.
Deception or self-reinforcing failures of memory and reporting, especially given the standard of communication available and the usual human desire not to be the one to say the Emperor has no clothes, are another matter entirely...
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Date: 2012-01-16 06:35 pm (UTC)From:Deception or self-reinforcing failures of memory and reporting, especially given the standard of communication available and the usual human desire not to be the one to say the Emperor has no clothes, are another matter entirely...