RE: Witness Evidence
November 11, 2015 at 7:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2015 at 7:38 pm by IATIA.)
(November 10, 2015 at 11:31 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I have often been told by atheist that witness testimony and observation either isn't evidence, or is evidence of poor quality. I question this notion.
It is a proven fact that memory recall sucks, pretty much in everyone. All memory suffers from personal bias. As time goes on, lapses occur that are filled with even more biased information. Even immediately after the fact, each witness will have a different version.
Just because it is accepted in the courts, does not make eyewitness testimony accurate, to say the least.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
