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I'm not sure what you mean by Gods name of my name (my Christian name?), but I would submit to you that, given your (real) name, a person who knows their way around the internet could indeed find you in many places, and provide a great deal of evidence to support your existence. Would this prove that you exist? No, it would not. But it would support the high probability of your existence, would you agree?
Yes, I do, but I would have to be in your profession.
Umm...you would have to be in my profession? To agree that a person could find evidence of you on the internet?
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But these other sources come from other people too
And that is where credibility comes in. After a while, you begin to notice that all the sites talking about this unexplained mystery are using the same story, sometimes word-for-word, never posting sources, never supporting their arguments. You begin to notice a pattern. You check into the other sources, and see that they do show their sources, and that they do have supporting evidence, and, most surprisingly, that they do not necessarily make the claims that the mystery mongers accuse them of making.
In my example, it is even simpler. All I asked was for them to find a site concerning these 400 ton gates
not made by a mystery monger. I make a similar request to people concerning other beliefs, for instance, looking for a site concerning ancient giants that does
not include creationism. Again, people realize that it is extremely difficult to do so. Hopefully, at some point, they begin to realize that it is only this one specific group that has this one specific agenda that requires this particular story to be true. At that point, hopefully a skeptical eyebrow will rise.
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You do agree that we are not alone in the universe and that there are greater possibilities to the reality that man has always believed in don’t you?
I believe there is the possibility of extra-terrestrial organic life. And I believe the world of physics has a great deal to discover. This is not the same, however, as what you are implying.
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Look at the way different cases are handled in court, evidence is presented of all sorts too but an innocest person is still sent to jail only to find out 20 yrs later of that the evidence was tampered with, is it not presented by people as well?
Exactly. Imagine, now, that instead of evidence, logic, and supporting arguments, we used the method previously in place: that of simply believing a claim when it was made, without questioning the credibility of the source or the validity of the claim. It wouldn't be much more than a witch trial, would it?
Science isn't perfect, it doesn't have all the answers, and it has never claimed to. Science can only offer the most likely, most probable, supported scenario that might have occurred. It cannot guarantee accuracy, only validity.