(January 25, 2017 at 4:37 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I see hoofprints in the ground. What quality of evidence do I need to support each of these proposed causes:
1 a horse
2 a zebra
3 a unicorn
I would ask, what in the evidence leads you to one conclusion over the other. But even without that, you have pretty sufficient evidence for a hooved animal of some kind having made those prints. I think it would be silly for someone to deny the evidence of the prints because they don't particularly like zebra's.
With only the information you have given, I don't think you are talking about evidence however, but rather of assumptions.