Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

[bennyboy]

I don't know why you have ignored my pretty simple definitions of "extraordinary": extraordinary claims are those which are outside the common cultural experience of someone listening to them.  Extraordinary evidence is the degree of evidence which would be required to convince the lister to alter his world view-- obviously, the farther an idea is from someone's current view of the world, the more evidence he is going to require in order to justify the hard (and maybe unsettling) work of adjusting it.

Not that none of this has to do with whether a claim is correct, or founded on solid logic or science.  It is just a description of the process of an idea-spreader trying to influence a potential carrier for his idea.

So then I take it the answer is no.. they are not used in the same way.  Thanks

Extraordinary claims are those people don't normally make.  Extraordinary evidence is evidence that people aren't normally required to make.  Looks the same to me, dude.