These are random notes that I have collected over the years. These are not my stats, but they are information that I acquired about different people and their work in apologetics. This is for educational purposes only to help you in your walk.
Dr Simon Greenleaf 1783-1853
The US judicial system today still relies on rules of evidence established by him. Testimony of the evangelists examined by the rule of evidence administered in courts of Justice. He believed that an unbiased person who honestly examines the evidence as in a court of law will conclude what he did truly arise. He was an agnostic, some say atheist. principal founder of the Harvard law school and world-renowned expert on evidence.
Nabeel Qureshi Nabeel Asif Qureshi was a Pakistani-American Christian apologist, author, speaker, and convert from the Ahmadiyya movement. In many Islamic countries the Ahmadis have been defined as heretics and non-Muslim and subjected to attacks and often systematic oppression. He worked for Ravi Zacharias ministries. " I don't know why my Christian friends didn't love me enough to tell me about Jesus."
Born: April 13, 1983, California
Died: September 16, 2017, Houston, TX
Duke university, university of Oxford, old Dominion, viola university, and eastern Virginia medical school.
Eben Alexander III is an American neurosurgeon and author. His book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife describes his 2008 near-death experience and asserts that science can and will determine that the brain does not create consciousness and that consciousness survives bodily death.
Born: December 11, 1953 (age 66 years), Charlotte, NC
Full name: Eben Alexander III
Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Mary Neal is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon who drowned while kayaking on a South American river. She experienced life after death. She went to heaven and back, conversed with Jesus and experienced God's encompassing love. Dr. Neal was born and raised in Michigan and graduated from the University of Kentucky before attending the UCLA medical school. She completed her orthopedic surgery training at the University of Southern California after which she lived in Sweden, Switzerland, and Los Angeles while undergoing 1 1/2 years of specialty training in spinal surgery before becoming the Director of spine surgery at USC. Five years later, she left the University for private practice.
Richard Swinburne, a philosopher of science turned philosopher of religion (and Dawkins's colleague at Oxford), estimated the probability of God's existence to be more than 50 percent in 1979 and, in 2003, calculated the probability of the resurrection [presumably of both Jesus and his followers] to be "something like 97 percent." University of Oxford.
Timothy Joel McGrew is Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University. His research interests include Epistemology, the History and Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Religion. He is a specialist in the philosophical applications of probability theory. 99 percent probability of the resurrection.
"In the many thousands of manuscript copies we possess of the New Testament; scholars have discovered that there are some 200,000 "variants." This may seem like a staggering figure to the uninformed mind. But to those who study the issue, the numbers are not so damning as it may initially appear. Indeed, a look at the hard evidence shows that the New Testament manuscripts are amazingly accurate and trustworthy. To begin, we must emphasize that out of these variants, 99 percent hold virtually no significance whatsoever. Many of these variants simply involve a missing letter in a word; some involve reversing the order of two words (such as "Christ Jesus" instead of "Jesus Christ"); some may involve the absence of one or more insignificant words. Really, when all the facts are put on the table, only about 50 of the variants have any real significance-- and even then, no doctrine of the Christian faith or any moral commandment is affected by them. For more than ninety-nine percent of the cases the original text can be reconstructed to a practical certainty."
Ron Rhodes ThD Dallas theological seminary
https://www.bethinking.org/jesus/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-from-non-christian-sources
Dr Simon Greenleaf 1783-1853
The US judicial system today still relies on rules of evidence established by him. Testimony of the evangelists examined by the rule of evidence administered in courts of Justice. He believed that an unbiased person who honestly examines the evidence as in a court of law will conclude what he did truly arise. He was an agnostic, some say atheist. principal founder of the Harvard law school and world-renowned expert on evidence.
Nabeel Qureshi Nabeel Asif Qureshi was a Pakistani-American Christian apologist, author, speaker, and convert from the Ahmadiyya movement. In many Islamic countries the Ahmadis have been defined as heretics and non-Muslim and subjected to attacks and often systematic oppression. He worked for Ravi Zacharias ministries. " I don't know why my Christian friends didn't love me enough to tell me about Jesus."
Born: April 13, 1983, California
Died: September 16, 2017, Houston, TX
Duke university, university of Oxford, old Dominion, viola university, and eastern Virginia medical school.
Eben Alexander III is an American neurosurgeon and author. His book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife describes his 2008 near-death experience and asserts that science can and will determine that the brain does not create consciousness and that consciousness survives bodily death.
Born: December 11, 1953 (age 66 years), Charlotte, NC
Full name: Eben Alexander III
Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Mary Neal is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon who drowned while kayaking on a South American river. She experienced life after death. She went to heaven and back, conversed with Jesus and experienced God's encompassing love. Dr. Neal was born and raised in Michigan and graduated from the University of Kentucky before attending the UCLA medical school. She completed her orthopedic surgery training at the University of Southern California after which she lived in Sweden, Switzerland, and Los Angeles while undergoing 1 1/2 years of specialty training in spinal surgery before becoming the Director of spine surgery at USC. Five years later, she left the University for private practice.
Richard Swinburne, a philosopher of science turned philosopher of religion (and Dawkins's colleague at Oxford), estimated the probability of God's existence to be more than 50 percent in 1979 and, in 2003, calculated the probability of the resurrection [presumably of both Jesus and his followers] to be "something like 97 percent." University of Oxford.
Timothy Joel McGrew is Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University. His research interests include Epistemology, the History and Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Religion. He is a specialist in the philosophical applications of probability theory. 99 percent probability of the resurrection.
"In the many thousands of manuscript copies we possess of the New Testament; scholars have discovered that there are some 200,000 "variants." This may seem like a staggering figure to the uninformed mind. But to those who study the issue, the numbers are not so damning as it may initially appear. Indeed, a look at the hard evidence shows that the New Testament manuscripts are amazingly accurate and trustworthy. To begin, we must emphasize that out of these variants, 99 percent hold virtually no significance whatsoever. Many of these variants simply involve a missing letter in a word; some involve reversing the order of two words (such as "Christ Jesus" instead of "Jesus Christ"); some may involve the absence of one or more insignificant words. Really, when all the facts are put on the table, only about 50 of the variants have any real significance-- and even then, no doctrine of the Christian faith or any moral commandment is affected by them. For more than ninety-nine percent of the cases the original text can be reconstructed to a practical certainty."
Ron Rhodes ThD Dallas theological seminary
https://www.bethinking.org/jesus/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-from-non-christian-sources