Posted: Oct 12, 2014 9:04 am
John Platko wrote:Well, that's one way to weigh the evidence. Obviously others, in this case, those that see Shiva in the cows third eye, weigh the evidence differently. However, how we weigh evidence should not be conflated with what is evidence.
You're missing the point entirely. When we talk about what evidence is, it's implicit in the definition that it's evidence for something. Where a datum allows for multiple interpretations, it isn't evidence for any of them over any other. Where a perfectly parsimonious and well-established explanation for a datum exists, parsimony rules. Since we already have a well-established explanation for the third eye, positing additional entities is unparsimonious.
Other than that, all of this is dealt with quite nicely in Cali's excellent 'Creationists: Read This' thread, specifically the section on the 'interpretations canard'.