In news:1154486077.327644.6320@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com,
riplin@Azonic.co.nz <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> typed:

You may be able to show people voicing __opinions__ but that is not
evidence.

If expert witnesses, and who could be more expert than someone who actually
was an Extra Terrestrial albeit briefly, see things and have things on film
then it's not an opinion but a statement of truth to the best of their
knowledge. That's evidence. Evidence doesn't have to be 100% conclusive to
qualify as evidence.

However it would be truthful to say there is absolutely no evidence to
support the church of scepticism, except the mistaken belief that any
absence of evidence is somehow valid as evidence, when in fact it is just
absence of evidence. Basing a belief on the absence of evidence is more akin
to a religious faith than a rational scientific approach to these issues.
-- 
Amanda