Witness Evidence

[bennyboy]

Obviously this whole thread has just passed you by.  The unreliability of eyewitness testimony has been proven again and again and shown to you from every which way but loose. (oops, wrong thread   ) The problem is that you refuse to accept this fact as it does not fit in with your agenda.

What I have seen is a lot of is the same as here.   Re-enforce the claim, and an attempt to re-direct the focus to my supposed agenda (oh and declare victory somewhere along the line).  Pretty much the usual atheist MO in my experience.    And I still don't know how you's would answer the question I posted above.  From what I can gather, according to your views, I don't even need to acknowledge the testimony that you offered against testimony.

"Testimony is unreliable" means that witness statements are not generally something you can count on to be either accurate or truthful. Tape measures, scales and thermometers are infinitely better in that capacity.

We would apply this by not accepting witness statements as evidence in any context where being able to establish the veracity of evidence is important to us.

You can keep running in circles all day, but the answer is just going to be the same all day: people are full of shit, and so relying on them to establish truth is likely to lead to shitty conclusions. . . like the existence of Sky Daddy who reserves a place in hell for masturbating teens, for example.