Reply To: Why do you believe in Science?

OneOfMany,

Thank you for thoughtful post. There is much that I would like to say in response and I think that we could probably come to an agreement. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I have a lot work on my plate right now and do not have time to write a worthy response.

Lakewood001,

I will respond to you more at length when I have the time (perhaps the beginning of next week). For now: if you have two books and one claims to be written by G-d and makes no claim of authorship at all (it is anonymous), which is more likely to be a book authored by G-d? Of course claims of authorship increase the likelihood of actual authorship by the claimant.

As a less controversial analogy. If there is a court case over the ownership of a factory and Company A wants to introduce a general ledger showing the purchase of the factory. The other party claims that the ledger is not Company A’s ledger but a random ledger of one of the million other companies in the country. The fact that ledger says on it “General Ledger of Company A” will be evidence that it is in fact the General Ledger of Company A, and will be admissible as such.