RE: Testimony is Evidence
August 23, 2017 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2017 at 8:47 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 23, 2017 at 8:15 am)SteveII Wrote:(August 22, 2017 at 3:59 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Being the only evidence doesn't keep it from being shitty, hearsay evidence. Shitty evidence may be good enough for you, but I have higher standards.
Aside from supernatural claims, what kind of event do you think leaves no physical evidence?
The billions of human actions, interactions, and conversations that do not have a lasting or meaningful effect on the physical world that could be examined at a later time...that happen every minute of the day.
Actually, no. Physics says nothing above quantum level that could actually happen could ever happen in such a way that in principle it leaves no physical evidence. It is called non-destruction of information. That it might be very expensive and difficult to recover the evidence is one thing, to say there is in principle no evidence is another, and false. No less a personage than Steve Hawking gambled that there could be one exception to the rule of non-destruction of information. He paid up when he lost. Even if God is a black hole he could not suck up the information about any of his antics.
If the thing claimed to have happened is of little consequence, then effort to obtain evidence for it must be gaged by how important is it to determine accurately whether it happened. Hence if the evidence for it is more costly to obtain than it's worth, then to hell with it. 99.99% of human actions, interactions and conversation falls into that category.
If the thing claimed to have happened is also claimed to have profound consequence - and in the case of apparently infantile Christian claims they are always attended by extravagant boasts of the supreme and eternal implied consequence - then it would be worth the Supreme time and Supreme effort to recover the physical evidence to prove it happened, so as to Prove the claims of extravagant consequence need be considered; or whether it in fact never happened, but gullible or criminal minds were banking on the difficulty of proving it happened to create the make belief that it did happen, in order to suit their own ends.
Why are you so afraid of fingers being pointed at the latter possibility, moron?