(June 6, 2016 at 4:43 pm)madog Wrote:(June 6, 2016 at 4:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: That's just a semantic point. When Robinson Caruso observed footprints on the beach he took those as evidence that he was not alone.
Eh .... it depends on what you want to conclude from the question posed from the footprint .... Is there someone on the Island? Did someone visit the island? Did I sleep walk, was it aliens, was it proof of God, etc?
There is a big difference in making an assumption purely on the observation of a footprint for your own survival than making an assumption that it was an entity that the rest of mankind should worship.
Why is this even a problem? People make observations. They reason about those observations to reach conclusions. When asked how they reached their conclusions they refer back to the observation and call it evidence.