Class #10, 4/2/12

**Roster, etc.

**Questions about upcoming paper?

**Groups:  Detective work on the Resurrection narratives (Handouts).

**Discussion--Is there ever any need for explanations beyond "nature"?  What conditions would exclude such explanations?  What conditions would necessitate them--or at least make them plausible?

**Hume and Davis:  Visual aids for tonight's discussion.

**A couple of discussions on openness to the "divine" explanation--here's the first:




And here's the second.


**For next week--the spooky stuff:  Unit 11, Life after Death--
------>Read:
------>------>H.H. Price, "The Soul Survives and Functions after Death," pp 465ff
------>------>Richard Swinburne, "The Soul Needs a Brain to Continue to Function," pp 474ff
------>Write:  Would Price's view of the afterlife make death attractive to you?  Why/Why not?