Casual Co-incidences vs. Cryptic Cleverness

Following up on the discussion last time, this video argues that apparent casualness has epistemological force. But if we are going to take that force seriously, as we do in the argument from undesigned coincidences and the argument from incidental external confirmations, we have to take apparent casualness seriously in other contexts. Imposing a completely unstated, conjectured theological or symbolic meaning or allusion to an Old Testament passage upon the apparently casual narrative details of a story is treating the authors as highly subtle and cryptic, placing easily-missed 'Easter eggs" into their narratives when they appear to be narrating artlessly.  This is not the image of the authors supported by the argument from undesigned coincidences.  

Here is the earlier video on Explaining Away:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnz6-WR21H0

Originally uploaded to YouTube May 8, 2022