RE: Evolution
April 3, 2012 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2012 at 7:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 30, 2012 at 2:13 am)padraic Wrote: Eg oral tradition,personal testimony,ancient and modern writings concerning hundreds of religions.
All evidence of human beings and the human experience, but none of it evidence of any god. Again, everything is evidence of something. I'm not sure about the laws where you are btw, but here, "hearsay" is actually classified as hearsay, and makes for an easy objection and dismissal (hearsay does not constitute evidence in our system, else whispers become convictions). This is the language of law we're talking about here though, not existence. "Anecdotal evidence" is the language of advertising (and often, fuzzy thinking), again, not existence.
They get nothing. In the end, you and I seem to have different definitions of evidence (and that's understandable), but personally, I don't put qualifiers in front of it. "Object A" is either evidence for a claim or it is not. It is not weak, bad, less than credible, etc. Considering that the thread title is "Evolution", I'm less than interested in what a lawyer or ad agent has managed to wrangle for a definition Pad.
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