(January 30, 2015 at 12:07 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Hearsay is the claim. It's the way we even have a clue about all of what you are claiming.
It's the claim. One thing cannot both be the claim and the evidence. It really is not that difficult to comprehend.
If I have a book that's 2200 years old and tells me that Amun Ra is the one and true god above all. That's the claim. I cannot also look at that book and claim it to be the evidence that Amun Ra is real and the one and true god. It is the claim. I need to look elsewhere for corroborative evidence to support that claim.
That is what your are missing.
The problem with that statement is that can be applied to eyewitness testimony too. So by your reasoning, eyewitness testimony would not be evidence.