(May 13, 2012 at 9:33 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Wouldn't it be a pathetic world of ours if everybody just gave up on evidence and we all believed any wild claim that came out of some lunatics mouth?
Whenever this thing about evidence comes up, I always get a mental picture of a prosecutor in a courtroom, or a scientist presenting his/her research for peer review: "Aw, come on, why do you always ask for evidence all the time? It's so boooooring!"
Protip: this is why people who play that card tend to haemorrhage credibility round here.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'