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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
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?
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.'
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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence - by Cyberman - November 9, 2015 at 11:52 am

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