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Originally Posted by galacsi
Yes : testimonies. I happen to believe in people.
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That's very sweet of you. However, there are some serious problems with
just believing eyewitness testimony. Namely that it has been shown, in study after study, to be unreliable. I have myself often said that I'd rather go to court with nothing but eyewitness testimony against me than with nothing but circumstantial evidence against me; eyewitness testimony is
far easier to impeach.
Note that I'm not actually calling anyone a liar. I don't doubt that some people in the field are. However, I think most of them are mistaken in either what they saw, what they remember, or both. Human memory is malleable. It is well established that the testimony that you should rely on most is that closest to the incident, and if you actually do the research, you will discover that the testimonies of some of these people have changed pretty radically over the decades, allowing for aliens where they didn't before.
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And when you go to the core of the problem , most of what we know ,has been told us by somebody in whom we believe.
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No, it's been told to us by somebody in whom
you believe.
But let's look at that word "believe" a minute, shall we? I, for example, do not
believe in evolution or Apollo. I am aware that the physical evidence backs up both of them to, in my opinion, a far higher standard than is applied in a court of law. In both cases, it is
possible that they're wrong, but it's pretty mind-bogglingly unlikely.
But without physical evidence, all you have is belief. And, if you believe in the alien autopsy video, a pretty transparent hoax.