Concerning _evidence_, Jack Sargeant said to Troy H. Cheek in UFO:
 >> Then answer the question.  Why is one person required to back up
 >> his claim while the other isn't?
 JS> 
 JS> It depends on the claim being made. The obsurdity of the claim takes
 JS> precedent.
And who decides the "obsurdity?"  It looks to me like it's along the same 
lines as "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" in that one party 
can always pretend (or even believe) that his own claims are strictly 
"ordinary" while his opponent's are not.
 JS> In most cases, it's the skeptic challenging the claim of a believer.
And, in those cases, that's proper and expected.  When the skeptic starts 
making his own claims (e.g. "It was weather balloon." like in my example), 
though, I 
believe he should be held to the same standards to which he holds the 
believer. 
... catfish@wingnet.net or http://surf.to/troy >310 hits!
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