I know tigers can kill people. Hence, in general, it's wise to beware tigers. But if someone tells me there's a tiger in the back seat of my car, it's neither arrogant nor misleading to actually look in the car, fail to see a tiger, and dismiss the claim. It really is that simple. There is a difference between wariness and doomsaying.

See, why is it that if you don't belive a CT or a "Prophecy", you are automatically discounting them out of arrogance without even looking? The complaint is that we don't look in the back seat for the tiger, we just say, "Oh you silly little man, there's no tiger there because I'm a scientist!".

If we were so quick to dismiss claims while not bothering to look at the "evidence" (use that term losely), we wouldn't have a whole section of BAUT full of thousand-plus post threads.

It is arrogant to dismiss a claim without even looking at it, but it's also arrogant to assume that we don't look at and consider the claims being made.

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