(January 14, 2016 at 3:15 pm)Beccs Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 3:07 pm)AAA Wrote: No, you shouldn't believe all of them. But at some point the high number of people claiming something does become significant. If everyone on earth except you claimed to have seen bigfoot, would you believe it or still need to see it for yourself?
You don't need to see it, you need clear evidence of it.
Millions of people claim to have been abducted by aliens.
The point being, why believe ANYTHING on a claim, without evidence?
I guess you don't have to believe anything just on a claim, but I personally don't think it is a good life philosophy to require evidence for everything. If someone you know tells you they got a new TV, would you demand to go to their house before you would believe them? If people have no motive to lie, then we don't need to require them to justify every single claim they have. Still I think that if we go with the alien example, and everyone but you claimed to have been abducted, you would eventually have to concede that there is some phenomenon behind it, even if they didn't have material evidence. The eye witness is definitely weak evidence, but it shouldn't just be dismissed.
