RE: Witness Evidence
December 5, 2015 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2015 at 2:29 pm by IATIA.)
(December 5, 2015 at 10:51 am)Irrational Wrote: But when it is a serious claim, then evidence needs to be there to back up someone's testimony. Otherwise, it would be dangerously easy for example to declare innocent people guilty just by providing some testimony against them.
Which is exactly what happened in the days of "witch burnings". All one had to say was, "She's a witch" and the trial was, if she lived through it she was a witch. And that of course was a death sentence, so if one was called a witch then death was inevitable for the accused. On "testimony".
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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