RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
July 26, 2017 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 6:14 pm by brewer.)
(July 26, 2017 at 4:13 pm)SteveII Wrote:(July 26, 2017 at 3:53 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: My improbable claim is that an apparent super natural being, (named super man oddly enough) exists and can fly. People (not me) claim to have seen it and have written books about it. What is the probability of this evidence being present had this flight not occurred?
The probability is low which means that a supernatural event cause for the claim is high. Notice that there is no requirement that the evidence be extraordinary. Do you believe it without additional evidence?
Your analogy (and everyone else's about Santa or unicorns or whatever) is lacking for the sole reason you made it up. There is no evidence to weigh or consider alternative explanations. It is totally irrelevant and makes no point.
It's not an analogy but a claim, is completely relevant and fits your scenario. You don't like it simply because you want justifiable belief in your scenario and not the one I put forward based on the same premise.
What is this lacking that yours has? I did not make it up, this story was around before I was born. What sole reason other than your position in wrong?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
