“Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.”  This familiar slogan has been repeated often by my atheist friends. Whenever I speak of the historical validity of the resurrection, whenever I point out that if the same amount of eye witnesses and historians who claimed Jesus rose from the dead merely claimed that Jesus gave a speech or started a revolution, nobody would doubt it, they smile and say, “Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.”

I tend to resist that phrase. To me, we either have evidence or we don’t. It is either good evidence or it isn’t. Our process for examining historical evidence must be objective.  If we are going to begin with the bias that miracles are impossible, then no amount of evidence will ever be enough.

Now, then, let us leave the field of history for a moment and venture into science, another discipline where people believe they have dismissed God once and for all.  Nothing in science is proven unless it’s repeatable and observable. Although Micro-Evolution (changes within the same species) can be observed, Macro-Evolution (changes from one species to another) are not being observed, neither would an evolutionist make such a claim, since it would take millions of years in his opinion.  Evolution does not merely teach that man came from ape like creatures. It teaches that ALL SPECIES WERE ONCE RELATED, BIRDS, REPTILES, MAMMALS, FISH…ALL RELATED!  If this is really true, we should find literally billions upon billions of missing link fossils. Knowing that we don’t even come remotely close, evolutionists still point to a handful of alleged fossils (very disputed amongst scientists) but they cling to these findings as clear, abundant evidence for Macro-Evolution.

At this point, I just have to make a simple observation: Claiming that all species were once related is an extraordinary claim. What happened to “extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence”?

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