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To: js1138; GourmetDan
Unless there is a witness who can testify, the event is past and unobservable.

So, all a murderer has to do, to get off if GourmetDan is on the jury, is make sure there are no immediate witnesses to the deed. The murder can occur inside a locked vault, and the suspect be found in there when it is opened covered in blood, surrounded by the stabbed bodies of his victims, clutching a blood-soaked knife, but it would be an unwarranted inference of an unobserved event to conclude that the suspect murdered the victims if he denies doing it. As the sole witness if he asserts that a demon materialised in the vault and killed everyone but him before pressing the knife into his hand and then disappearing, who are we to gainsay him with our atheist insistence on naturalistic explanations for dead bodies? (BTW, the physical evidence supporting common descent is at least as convincing as the hypothetical murder case that I allude to)

835 posted on 07/07/2006 11:26:58 AM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatHenry I'm the real PatHenry all the other PatHenrys are just imitators)
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To: Thatcherite
So, all a murderer has to do, to get off if GourmetDan is on the jury, is make sure there are no immediate witnesses to the deed. The murder can occur inside a locked vault, and the suspect be found in there when it is opened covered in blood, surrounded by the stabbed bodies of his victims, clutching a blood-soaked knife, but it would be an unwarranted inference of an unobserved event to conclude that the suspect murdered the victims if he denies doing it. As the sole witness if he asserts that a demon materialised in the vault and killed everyone but him before pressing the knife into his hand and then disappearing, who are we to gainsay him with our atheist insistence on naturalistic explanations for dead bodies? (BTW, the physical evidence supporting common descent is at least as convincing as the hypothetical murder case that I allude to)

Very good!

Unfortunately, you throw proverbial pearls before very real swine.

836 posted on 07/07/2006 11:36:16 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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