Evidence, evidence, evidence.. Oh my.. Have all you "skeptics" heard about induction? That's the stage before the evidence, the investigation phase. People on this board act like they are in a court of law, and that's fine for the most part, but would anyone like to claim that the sun won't rise tomorrow? No? Then it's because you rely on induction as oppsosed to evidence.. You anti-skeptics you! heh
You know, I suspect that if this paragraph had been at all meaningful, it would have been wrong.
Inductive evidence -- a set of previous examples -- are indeed evidence, even in a court of law. What they aren't is mathematical
proof. But I don't think that anyone's been suggesting that the existence (or non-existence) of the Holocaust can be inferred from first principles without reference to any aspect of the real world, so that's not really relevant.
What
is relevant is the tremendous amount of evidence that is available. And while we've seen numerous examples of attempts to twist and cover up this evidence,
it's almost all on the part of the Holocaust deniers. If you (or anyone else) is suggesting a large-scale coverup to hide the fact that the Holocaust
did not happen, or to fake the Holocaust,.... well, you're simply irrational. There's too much
independent evidence to make such a coverup a realistic possibility.
Just some simple examples :
1) The various national census figures before and after the Second World War show that about 6 million Jews, in total, "disappeared." They existed in 1935 and were gone in 1945. How many different census officials would need to conspire together to cook the books in this way if it weren't true?
2) Train manifests from all over the Third Reich describe how many boxcars full of Jews were delivered to the various extermination camps, and how many
empty boxcars left those same camps. If three-quarters of a million Jews were delivered to Treblinka (as the freight manifests show), where did they go? If they weren't, who forged all those freight manifests?
3) Why do the eyewitness reports of the mass crematorium operations at Auschwitz agree more or less exactly with the description in the patent documents for the operation of a mass crematorium, if there wasn't such a crematorium in operation at Auschwitz? How would this particular "conspiracy" have been coordinated?
et cetera, et cetera?
Look, where there's crime, there's coverup (more induction). So you can't rely entirely on evidence in these cases, unless you're a bit daft.
I submit that evidence is all you CAN rely on....