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Extraordinary claims require Extraordinary evidence. Someone seeing someone at a party or a person having a pulse is not extraordinary. This is simply Sagan's dragon in a garage from Demon Haunted World. Subjective internal proof can be used to justify Roland the closet goblin, alien abductions and ...

In 2020, Max Baker-Hytch published a piece in Solas Articles, titled A Beginner’s Guide to the Fine-Tuning Argument. Here's the full reference: A Beginner’s Guide to the Fine-Tuning Argument Author Max Baker-Hytch Date Published 24th February 2020 https://www.solas-cpc.org/a-beginners-guide-to-the-...

In keeping with the title and intent of the thread I looked for gemli's next comment to post, but he hasn't added anything recently, so I looked back a little to see his earlier thoughts on stories. This one adds only the slightest bit of argument, but on the other hand it does seem to indicate his...

Straight from Sic et Non today and keeping with the theme of this thread we seem to go straight back to stories. Not only that, Peterson is saying that “stories” is the best they’ve got. Here is something that puzzles me. Why do believers shy away from the things God commands? Mormon god commands t...

Straight from Sic et Non today and keeping with the theme of this thread we seem to go straight back to stories.

For example, I think that the witnesses are our strongest point of offense. I simply see no way around the implications of their testimony, though some have tried to get around it.

Lawyers do that all the time. We call it attacking the credibility of the witness. The message to the jury is: the story you are being told isn't true. How, in the case where a ballistics expert is showing that the rifling pattern on the bullet that killed the victim matches the rifling pattern on ...

I do not understand your point. On the one hand, you seem to be saying that stories need objects to be trustworthy. On the other hand, you seem to be saying that millions of people were fooled because Smith had an object to go with his story. A pious fraud would want to emulate normal patterns that...

ETA: I’d suggest that what juries do is listen to all the stories and then construct a story they can agree upon. I could agree on that. Physical evidence helps to galvanize the ideas though. I think that is why Joseph needed a prop. The Book of Abraham came with its own material manifestation. Zel...

I have been a juror also. The testimonies (stories) were not the evidence that eventually led us our verdicts. They simply were a springboard to communicate information from each prospective witness. We then considered the testimonies credibility, physical evidence, prior documented behaviors, like...