RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
November 8, 2015 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2015 at 5:41 pm by bennyboy.)
(November 8, 2015 at 2:22 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Again, I find that your argument and use of the word ordinary to be highly subjective. It is based on understanding, and as understanding increases, what was extraordinary becomes ordinary. Therefore the skeptic has the right to demand extraordinary evidence for whatever they choose.
People can demand any kind of evidence they want. If I claim it's raining, you can demand video evidence, and you can take it to a lab for analysis to prove my video's not been doctored. But you wouldn't, because that would be a pointless waste of time.
If, on the other hand, I claim that I'm a prophet of God and that you therefore must obey my commandments, you'd be stupid to accept my words at face value. If, in support of my claim that you should put your money in a little basket I'm passing around, I used as my evidence a book written three thousand years ago by uneducated desert people with no access to modern science, you'd be stupid to do so.
There are, to be fair, lots of people in the world who are that stupid.
