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I’ll believe it when I see it.

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You know it when you see it. Believing is for things you never have seen.

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Thats the point of the phrase. The idea is so unbelievable that it needs to be personally verified before it can be taken seriously…

Not to mention, you can see something and still not ‘know’ - stage magic, for one.

See also: ‘it has to be seen to be believed’; ‘i cant believe my eyes’; the word ‘unbelievable’

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No end of useless pedantry these days

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Yeah, no. You’re equating belief with faith.

I don’t “believe” things until that belief is justified.

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Question for you, do you believe in Evolution?

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Bruh. Literally thousands of studies out there demonstrate the principle of evolution. You need only look at dog breeding or crop breeding to see it in action, albeit human induced instead of natural.

We dont believe in evolution because one guy said it was true. And dont give me that ‘hurr durr but Darwin said it was true’ nonsense. He did (as did other contemporaries of his time) but it wasnt accepted until overwhelming evidence from countless observations and studies made it obvious.

Now lets look at this situation. One guy says he heard the government has non human remains. Not exactly the analogy you thought you were making.

And Ill cut this off at the pass because the next argument I always hear usually boils down to ‘we can only know what we see’ which is basically a solopsist argument. Which is self defeating because then you absolutely cant argue there’s merit to this guy’s testimony because you cant be sure of anything.

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Except it’s not just one guy saying aliens are here, it’s hundreds, and these three said it under oath unlike the scientists you speak of. Yet you believe the word of the scientists and not the word of these men. You don’t see the hypocrisy there?

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@DaughterOfMars @Holyginz You can see it scientifically. So, yes.

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Oh, you can, surely. But have you? As Mac says, “Have you seen these fossil records? Have you poured through the data yourself? The numbers, the figures?”

Confidently denying something because you haven’t personally seen the evidence makes you look as much an idiot as confidently accepting it without evidence.

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Duh

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You make my point so eloquently. You take it as a matter of fact that Evolution exists, despite never actually validating this yourself. It is, in your eyes, ridiculous to think that it doesn’t exist – after all, you were taught that it does in school. But before the 19th century the theory of Evolution didn’t even exist. Probably some speculated about it, but were not taken seriously. Yet you have fully accepted it without, as you say, seeing it.

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