Let's see if a hypothetical might illustrate this.
Say you're walking home tonight across a muddy field and you see a trail of hoofprints. Nothing else is evident, no other sign or cause. What is the most plausible explanation?
A) Horse
B) Zebra
C) Unicorn
More importantly, what is the minimum standard of evidence you would accept for each of these?
Say you're walking home tonight across a muddy field and you see a trail of hoofprints. Nothing else is evident, no other sign or cause. What is the most plausible explanation?
A) Horse
B) Zebra
C) Unicorn
More importantly, what is the minimum standard of evidence you would accept for each of these?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'