"The_Sage" <specialoffers@CityBend.com> wrote in message
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Reply to article by: "rick nielsen" <rnielsen@centurytel.net>
Date written: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:15:06 -0500
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With respect,... "Extrordinary claims require extrordinary evidence"
is Bullshit. I don't know why people buy that baloney. ANY claim
requires evidence sufficient to support itself and no more. Evidence
is evidence. This attempt at "being reasonable" is merely a spider's
web to lure you into a disadvantageous position and set you up for
a rhetorical spanking.

Then let me be more specific: There is absolutely no evidence given in

the case

of UFOs...and no evidence means a useless claim.

Get out your famous dictionary ; testimoney is evidence ;

Have someone get an encyclopedia and read it for you so that you can see

and

understand that testimony is *legal* evidence, not *scientific* evidence.

wrong again the scientific method's first step is observation, eyewitnessing
is obviously observation, and no amount of snideness on your part will
change that.

there is more than
enough evidence to support the phenomenon of ufos ,it isn't conclusive

If it isn't conclusive, then you cannot say it "supports" it. Get a clue

please.

You know you just make yourself look more than usually foolish by breaking
sentences in the middle to imply they are saying something they don't ;the
evidence , the observations fully support the phenomenon of ufos as a
phenomenon.

as to
being caused by aliens, some of the evidence seems to poiint that way

some

doesn't, but then that is a theory not yet tested as noone has come up

,as

of yet ,with a good way to test the theory

It isn't a theory if it is a wild-arse hypothesis.

you know I hope that hypothesis is another word for theory , the words
essentially mean the same thing, and as for your adjective it is basically
meaningless there are only theories that have been proven true (sofar as the
data goes) ,theories that have been proven untrue ,and theories that haven't
been proven true or untrue, which is where the theory of aliens visiting
earth langishes for the forseeable future as noone has come up with a good
experiment to prove it one way or the other for all cases.

The Sage

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