Charlie – “That is a serious pilpul on Rambam that is not consistent with the rest of the treatment of Noachide laws, where he simply follows the pshat of the gemara. Nowhere is there any suggestion that an eid is anything other than a witness. Remember that we are not talking about Jewish courts here.”
It doesn’t matter what Court, it says Eid by the court procedings and they can’t be one.
“So how does this coincide with the fact of -you need one Eid (even a Goy) to testify in the Goyishe courts? You might have a different Teretz,”
You haven’t given a Teretz yet, maybe you will say only a Jew can give Eidus in a secular court? I prefer my Pshat. It can’t be that you need a Goyishe Eid, but they are Posul to give Eidus. This isn’t called Eidus.
Remember, it says Eid Echod. I’m learning that it’s not going as the Din of an Eid. If you’re learning it is going as the Din of an Eid, then only a Jew’s testimony can be accepted in secular courts, not a Goys.