Can an assertion be used to prove another assertion? That's basically what we're asking here.
Science doesn't set out to prove things, it sets out to attempt to disprove them and is either met with failure to disprove or success to disprove. It doesn't really prove anything, that's sort of just math's thing. So at best, you could say that the evidence fails to prove someone's testimony false, it doesn't mean it's true. So in any situation, testimony doesn't actually provide evidence, it simply provides a secondary, tertiary, etc. assertion to experiment upon and either discard or investigate further in the interest of determining the initial assertion.
Science doesn't set out to prove things, it sets out to attempt to disprove them and is either met with failure to disprove or success to disprove. It doesn't really prove anything, that's sort of just math's thing. So at best, you could say that the evidence fails to prove someone's testimony false, it doesn't mean it's true. So in any situation, testimony doesn't actually provide evidence, it simply provides a secondary, tertiary, etc. assertion to experiment upon and either discard or investigate further in the interest of determining the initial assertion.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
