To believe or not to believe, that's the question. But based on what?
Do you believe earth's shape is an ellipsoid, based on photo's which can be photoshoped?
No one believes that Earth is an ellipsoid because he or she has been in space, to witness it. But eye-witness, is not good enough too, according to critical thinkers. We cannot trust our senses.
You can not trust what you read here on the forum, according to critical thinkers... Maybe what I wrote is not what you read...
you want to 'see the evidence'?
But, when you 'see the evidence with your own eyes', that's just not good enough, according to james Randi and co. Because, the socalled expert will say: do not trust your own eyes. Eye-witness testimony is bad...
you witness that this thread on this forum exists? Don't trust your senses.
So, in fact: the laymen is trapped in a double bind:
his 'own eyes' are not good enough. His testemony of the evidence he reads in journals or sees is not good enough.
What he sees on television, is not good enough.
What he sees on a picture is not good enough (can be photoshoped).
You see the stupidity of this nonsense about personal eyewitnesses of the layman? Of course people can trust their senses.
He just has to believe the one who is been called 'the expert'.
But his earwitness of the expert is not good enough too. Sound hallucinations and visual illusions of 'the witness of the expert, talking' is not good enough, being evidence, according to the critical thinker.
So, in fact: the laymen is not good enough to observe and think for himself. He needs the experts.
That's no free thinking at all.
Conclusion: this whole 'eyewitness testimony is not good enough' is wrong. We must trust our senses to read or to listen to experts in the field. That's our only road to the evidence. And we do not have to trust the expert, we can trust our own senses, when we witness something different from what the experts writes.
Do you believe earth's shape is an ellipsoid, based on photo's which can be photoshoped?
No one believes that Earth is an ellipsoid because he or she has been in space, to witness it. But eye-witness, is not good enough too, according to critical thinkers. We cannot trust our senses.
You can not trust what you read here on the forum, according to critical thinkers... Maybe what I wrote is not what you read...
you want to 'see the evidence'?
But, when you 'see the evidence with your own eyes', that's just not good enough, according to james Randi and co. Because, the socalled expert will say: do not trust your own eyes. Eye-witness testimony is bad...
you witness that this thread on this forum exists? Don't trust your senses.
So, in fact: the laymen is trapped in a double bind:
his 'own eyes' are not good enough. His testemony of the evidence he reads in journals or sees is not good enough.
What he sees on television, is not good enough.
What he sees on a picture is not good enough (can be photoshoped).
You see the stupidity of this nonsense about personal eyewitnesses of the layman? Of course people can trust their senses.
He just has to believe the one who is been called 'the expert'.
But his earwitness of the expert is not good enough too. Sound hallucinations and visual illusions of 'the witness of the expert, talking' is not good enough, being evidence, according to the critical thinker.
So, in fact: the laymen is not good enough to observe and think for himself. He needs the experts.
That's no free thinking at all.
Conclusion: this whole 'eyewitness testimony is not good enough' is wrong. We must trust our senses to read or to listen to experts in the field. That's our only road to the evidence. And we do not have to trust the expert, we can trust our own senses, when we witness something different from what the experts writes.
via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=267609&goto=newpost
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