(August 13, 2014 at 3:04 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(August 13, 2014 at 2:59 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: No, I believe you miss the point, we are talking about evidence, like it or not eye witness testimony is evidence. What you are talking about is proving the evidence, which is a whole different animal.
Wow, you really have a bizarrely skewed idea of what scientific evidence is. Again, try to leave the courtroom analogy behind. Evidence when talking about a factual or scientific claim does NOT include anecdote, I'm sorry it just doesn't. Just like the anecdotal claims of people that have seen Bigfoot is NOT evidence that Bigfoot exists, claims about miracles or faith healing or Jaysus are NOT evidence that any of those are true.
Eyewitness testimony can be admitted as evidence in a trial of someone's guilt in a courtroom, but we are not talking about a courtroom, we're talking about scientific fact.
Ok, answer this. What is the very first step in any scientific discovery?