When Is Enough Evidence… Enough?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
ColdCaseChristianity.com
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this blast from the past, J. Warner responds listener email questioning the adequacy of circumstantial evidence. Can we really trust circumstantial evidence or must we also have direct evidence to determine the truth of a matter? How does this apply to defending the Christian Worldview? When do we know we have enough evidence to make a decision? J. Warner examines the Casey Anthony trial (one more time) in an effort to understand "evidential sufficiency".
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| 0:00.0 | Throughout history man has marveled at the vast complexity of the universe. |
| 0:05.0 | Without a single unified voice, humanity has been left searching for answers to be unknown. |
| 0:11.0 | Now one man has the power to change that and to spread his voice across |
| 0:17.0 | the earth for all of mankind to hear one man, me. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Please Convince Me podcast, existing to equip believers, |
| 0:28.0 | encourage seekers, and engage sceptics with the Christian worldview. |
| 0:32.0 | We provide free information and resources at |
| 0:35.0 | W.W. Please Convince me.com. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, here is the host of our podcast Jim Wallace. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, thanks for joining us this week on the Please Can Miss Me podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | This is a kind of a special podcast because we're going to post it a little bit early. |
| 0:50.0 | I'll be gone or involved in a bunch of vacation plans and goofing off this week |
| 0:54.8 | kind of treating it as our true vacation for the summer and I will not be able to |
| 0:59.0 | post on Monday night so you get this a little bit early, but we're going to give this entire podcast over to the issue of |
| 1:06.1 | evidential sufficiency. |
| 1:08.5 | And what does that mean? |
| 1:09.5 | Well, you know, I just got done spending last weekend in Maine speaking to a great church out there I talked |
| 1:16.5 | about last podcast and part of the things we talk about are the role really of circumstantial evidence and how it is that circumstantial |
| 1:24.4 | evidence is used to assess cases every single day in courtrooms across America |
| 1:29.4 | and how the same process of assessing circumstantial cases, cumulative circumstantial |
| 1:34.4 | cases can in fact be used to assess the case for the Christian |
| 1:39.1 | worldview. I don't care if it's a small piece of it or the overarching worldview issues. |
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