(November 2, 2010 at 1:06 pm)Rayaan Wrote: That's not a fallacy if the number of people who reported the same thing has an effect of strengthening the authenticity of the reports. The believability of a reference is dependent upon the number of people who reported the same thing, while at the same time, having strong evidence that the people who reported them are also real and not made up characters. This means that the authenticity or the truthfulness of a reference is determined by taking the references and then seeing if all of them can be traced back to a single, common source.
Point me to direct evidence that such number of witnesses in fact existed and the number was not itself made up as fradulent "evidence".
As to the reliability of witnesses, I can point you to scores of places where the different books of the bible made up shit to strengthen its own particular narrative motif, and millions of witnesses of the bible, if you will, have read the bible through and through and failed to detect factual incompatibility this created between different parts of the bible.
