Luke5515 said:
Alade said:
Ghost stories, old legends, religion
That just sounded really pointed.
But anyway, it all depends on what is being evaluated.
Rumor on the internet, false until true,
Friend telling story about weekend, true until false.
It just depends.
To be completely honest I wished for this discussion to be about religion, but that usually leads to a flame war that gets neither side anywhere, this is why it's a two way question, to keep it simple and honest.
Camaranth said:
I'm having trouble answering this question based on the simple fact that according to scientific theory you can't actually prove anything. You can support a hypothesis or disprove assumptions but irrefutable proof does not exist.
However for the examples you've given I'll say I take everything anyone says with huge mountains of salt until they can convince me otherwise.
While I knew I would eventually get such a response, I intentionally left out that fact. The idea is that the question is meant to be answered in a subjective way, but that raises the question of what proof is, in a subjective way. In that way, a religious man believes something was proven because he has faith, and a non-religious man believes something was proven because science declared it so, despite not being fully accurate.
What I'm trying to say is, even a non-religious person has to have faith to be able to accept the "facts" they're being handed. The only difference seems to be the way in which this proof is being handed to the person, maybe through a holy book or through a laboratory test.
