"Etherman" <etherman at mdc.net> wrote:
<snip>
>You're reading into it more than I intended. My point (which
>I thought was obvious) was that just because witnesses give
>contradictory accounts doesn't mean that the event, as a whole,
>never happened. I fail to see how disagreement among witnesses
>is "good evidence" that the event never happened.
Well, since we are usually told that the complete agreement
among their stories is strong evidence that it did happen,
that is what I was showing was an incorrect statement.
And, contradictory accounts don't mean the event happened
either.
<snip>
>>>>As is the evidence for fairies and witches.
>>>I've known several witches. So yeah, they do exist. The city of
>Salem MA has an official witch.
><snip>
Ah, but the reports say that the witches ride broomsticks,
make cows dry up, bring on disease, etc.
That is what the eyewitnesses said!
I will pass up the obvious and not ask how many fairies the
town of Salem has.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot
alter the state of facts and evidence.
