{"id":5459,"date":"2025-03-25T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/when-people-say-theres-no-evidence-how-do-you-justify-that\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:00:20","slug":"when-people-say-theres-no-evidence-how-do-you-justify-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/when-people-say-theres-no-evidence-how-do-you-justify-that\/","title":{"rendered":"When people say \u201cthere\u2019s no evidence\u201d.  How do you justify that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people claim &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence,&#8221; how do they support that assertion? Merriam-Webster defines &#8220;evidence&#8221; as: <\/p>\n<p>1) a) an outward sign; indication<br \/>\n     b) something that provides proof; testimony<\/p>\n<p>2) a witness<\/p>\n<p>So, how does it make sense to assert &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence&#8221; of&#8230; (fill in the blank)? No evidence of non-human intelligence? Are UAPs just balloons and swamp gas? Is there no proof of advanced technology or classified recovery programs involving non-human crafts and entities? What about claims of alien abductions?<\/p>\n<p>Considering definition 1a, which refers to an &#8220;outward sign&#8221; or &#8220;indication,&#8221; how can one confidently say &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence&#8221; at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhen people claim &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence,&#8221; how do they support that assertion? Merriam-Webster defines &#8220;evidence&#8221; as: 1) a) an outward sign; indication b) something that provides proof; testimony 2) a witness So, how does it make sense to assert &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence&#8221; of&#8230; (fill in the blank)? No evidence of non-human intelligence? Are UAPs just&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/when-people-say-theres-no-evidence-how-do-you-justify-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;When people say \u201cthere\u2019s no evidence\u201d.  How do you justify that?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}