Reading Ophelia's blog, I am now at a crossroads. The age-old game of "is it a Poe or is it not a Poe".
But heck put Mr Deity right up there with Ray Comfort – Till we see a species evolve into another with our own eyes , it doesn’t happen!
What will it take to make these idiots understand logic 101, argument form, metaphors, and allegories?
Nobody is arguing that rape doesn't happen, we are arguing that until you can provide proper evidence that it happened to X person, there's no reason to believe that individual account. There are mountains and mountains of evidence to show that evolution happens, just as there is mountains and mountains of evidence to show that rape, as a phenomena, exists. Just not mountains of evidence to show it happened to X person because X person refuses to give evidence in the name of anonymity and instead is compelled to have PZ post it on his blog.
Then of course they'll make the argument that you believe your friends about a number of any other trivial things without actual evidence. This is of course ignoring the fact that the consequences of believing that a potentially innocent person raped somebody are not equal to the consequences of believing that my friend has a bad case of diarrhea.