JUDGE: I never heard of such a case. I cannot allow you to quote
these papers. They are not evidence. Have you _any_ witnesses?

COUNSEL: No, m'lud.


That fancy dialogue about expresses the legal value of the evidence
for this important miracle.

But, legal value not being the only value, let us now consider the
evidence as mere laymen.




THE GOSPEL WITNESSES


As men of the world, with some experience in sifting and weighing
evidence, what can we say about the evidence for the Resurrection?

In the first place, there is no acceptable evidence outside the
New Testament, and the New Testament is the authority of the
Christian Church.

In the second place, there is nothing to show that the Gospels were
written by eye-witnesses of the alleged fact.

In the third place, the Apostle Paul was not an eye-witness of the