RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
July 27, 2017 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2017 at 2:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 27, 2017 at 12:56 pm)SteveII Wrote: Oh, I get it. Like if someone whats to demonstrate that the supernatural exists, maybe they would hang around for 3 years and perform series of miracles that only had supernatural explanations. How many miracles would that person have to do before a "success rate beyond the ordinary range described by brute force of statistics" was established?Exactly. Someone should do that, if they want to demonstrate that the supernatural exists. Get to it, or call your boy up on the godphone and have him get to it. Either way. Just a wild ass guess..the number would have to be precisely -one-. That;s all it would take. One paltry fucking miracle.....and yet, because you can;t even muster that, you point to fairy tales. The same nonsense plays itself out in psi research, wherein the claimant...upon failing the test, claims that he could totally do it yesterday.
Quote:The problem you just so kindly illustrated is that the evidence available to us is the same kind for your psychic and magician/healer illustration. However, through some process that remains unclear, we can set that aside and declare the need for extraordinary evidence. Please explain.You mean, your stories? Obviously, it's not the same. You have ordinary stories, and you wish for that to be evidence of an extraordinary events. You don't accept that ordinary evidence in the case of anyone else's extraordinary claims..so I don't see why you yammer on about it - it can only expose the weakness of your position. You believe. You do not need evidence to believe. The stories are not evidence of their contents accuracy. You have faith that they are accurate, but faith is all it is and all it needs to be.
Why is that so difficult for you?
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