(October 2, 2009 at 11:16 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote:(September 28, 2009 at 4:13 am)theVOID Wrote: No, and i can sum this up in one quote:
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
You need not read any further as the preceding gem from Sagan speaks for it's self, but since you are going to yet again ignore my answer i will say this: If i was going to tell you i ate eggs for breakfast you would not require evidence to hold the claim as truth, you would use logic to determine that the claim is feasible and experience to determine it is likely, if i told you however that i ate them with the queen of england on a yacht in the Bahamas then you would need evidence to hold it as truth because even though it is logically possible, it is not the type of claim that you should accept based on logic alone.
Spot on. I detailed that whole progression of the need for more evidence in this article
Of course Arcanus and I are discussing the same thing, only I was using Carl Sagan's dragon analogy.
It's such a shame he died so early.
Wicked article Love reading your stuff.
Haven't heard of the dragon analogy, where were you and Arcanus discussing it?
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