Saturday, February 27, 2016

Eyewitness Testimony

I continue to be exposed to religious apologists attempting to give credibility to eyewitness testimony.  Not only do some believe that the Gospels were written by eyewitnesses to the life and death and resurrection of Jesus, they accept eyewitness testimony regarding claims of miracles and even everyday religious experiences.  For example:

http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2015/08/31/why-was-hume-wrong-about-miracles-part-4/


How valuable is eyewitness testimony?  I present several links supporting the reality that our brains easily lie to us.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr06/eyewitness.aspx

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uBlAU24-qsoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=importance+of+eyewitness+testimony&ots=xyO-KCzTw4&sig=ZbTHPo5ZoaEOQ9LWT-NeHntbYLY#v=onepage&q=importance%20of%20eyewitness%20testimony&f=false

http://www.simplypsychology.org/eyewitness-testimony.html

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199828340/obo-9780199828340-0026.xml

http://agora.stanford.edu/sjls/Issue%20One/fisher&tversky.htm

http://reason.com/archives/2009/04/08/eyewitness-testimony-on-trial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony

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