Quotes About Evidence

Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.

Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it." "To stand in the clear light of day

Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it." "To stand in the clear light of day, you once said. Unsheltered.

The difference between a scientist and a fanatic is that the scientist discards his theory if the evidence doesn't confirm it. The fanatic twists the evidence to fit the theory.

dispositive.

I realized my knowledge of that potentially damning evidence gave Delilah a reason to want me out of the way. "Out of the way" might take a variety of different forms, of course, but none of them would be particularly attractive from my standpoint

What did Ian Fleming say? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. And I don't believe in waiting for even that much evidence. It was past time to act.

even though the orthodox claimed that this kind of manipulation of texts was a heretical activity, in the manuscripts of the New Testament that survive today almost all the evidence points in the other direction, showing that it was precisely orthodox scribes who modified their texts in order to make them conform more closely with orthodox theological interests.

The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible.

The very first surviving account of Jesus's life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty to sixty-five years after his death. That's obviously a lot of time.

The Need for an Empty Tomb ... If there was no empty tomb, Jesus was not physically raised.

Skepticism is demanding evidence before believing; cynicism is not believing even with evidence

Evidence that Jesus really did think that he was the king of the Jews is the very fact that he was killed for it.

we have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.

There can be no doubt on the basis of the written and archaeological evidence that the Christianization of the Roman Empire and early medieval Europe involved the destruction of works of art on a scale never before seen in human history.

If a story is found in several of these independent traditions, then it is far more likely that this story goes back to the ultimate source of the tradition, the life of Jesus itself. This is called the criterion of independent attestation.

Price says this figure provides compelling evidence of his view. In his words, "I find the possible parallel to the case of Hong Xiuquan to be, almost by itself, proof that James' being the Lord's brother need not prove a recent historical Jesus." That is, since Hong Xiuquan was not really Jesus's brother, the same could be true of James.

We have very little evidence to suggest that serious intellectuals converted to the Christian faith between the time of Paul and the mid-second century. Most converts would have been lower-class and uneducated. This was certainly true in Paul's own day. In a letter to one of his largest congregations, he explicitly reminds the Corinthians about their own constituency: "Consider your calling, brothers and sisters: Not many of you were wise...

similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.

Some people say you can't change behavior. But there is clear evidence to indicate that people can and do change behavior—sometimes dramatically—and that doing so often produces extraordinary results.

A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief. They feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny. They blame outside forces—other people, circumstances, even the stars—for their own situation.

serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief. They feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny. They blame outside forces—other people, circumstances, even the stars—for their own situation.

Una característica típica en que la pseudociencia difiere de la ciencia genuina es que el método científico requiere que se busquen formas de refutar las hipótesis. Por el contrario, la pseudociencia tiende a iniciar desde una afirmación con la cual el proponente está comprometido y busca evidencia para apoyar esa afirmación. La pseudociencia busca confirmaciones y la ciencia busca refutaciones.

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped? I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...