RE: If theists understood "evidence"
October 8, 2018 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2018 at 11:11 am by onlinebiker.)
(October 8, 2018 at 10:50 am)Minimalist Wrote:Exactly - a story isn't EVIDENCE. It needs to be verified by facts.(October 8, 2018 at 7:00 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: What is it, that you think is not understood?
What YOU do not understand - intentionally, I suspect since you are not stupid - is that a bald assertion is not "evidence." There's a line in an old book! It must be true! Unless it's a book written by someone you don't already worship. Homer writes that Poseidon blew Odysseus out to sea? Well, that can't be true but if some unknown shlepper writes that "jesus" healed a cripple you fall on your face and insist THAT happened. And worst of all, YOU don't get it and probably never will because your delusion is so willful.
"Evidence" must be examined. That is where all religious bullshit fails. Face value counts for exactly nothing.
Referring back to the story ( it' s in the Bible) as confirmational evidence - or simply by how convincing the teller sounds - isn't evidence.
(October 8, 2018 at 10:57 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:Cosby's case has nothing to do with anythIng we are talking about --- but I will play ---(October 8, 2018 at 10:50 am)Minimalist Wrote: What YOU do not understand - intentionally, I suspect since you are not stupid - is that a bald assertion is not "evidence." There's a line in an old book! It must be true! Unless it's a book written by someone you don't already worship. Homer writes that Poseidon blew Odysseus out to sea? Well, that can't be true but if some unknown shlepper writes that "jesus" healed a cripple you fall on your face and insist THAT happened. And worst of all, YOU don't get it and probably never will because your delusion is so willful.
"Evidence" must be examined. That is where all religious bullshit fails. Face value counts for exactly nothing.
Oh yes.... witness testimony is not evidence.
So then.... set Bill Cosby FREEE!!!! We also seemed to have shown, that is not the case recently, or are you saying that the democrats had no reason to cite delay and to not confirm Kavenaugh?
As well, witness testimony is used in historical research, and in criminal trials all the time. Atheists just seem to have double standards when it comes to things that don't fit their narrative.
Normally you might have something -- but the testimony that buried him was his own. In the 2005-2006 civil case against him - Mr Cosby admitted to buying the Quaaludes that he drugged women with.
That' s called cooberating evidence that's rather unimpeachable.