Reply #81: That's a pretty poor understanding of science. [View All]

[trotsky]

If you are investigating whether an event occurred, one which might not occur again for you to observe under controlled circumstances, then all you can go on is the evidence you collect. In the case of NSA spying, the fact that numbers and calls are recorded in a database is pretty strong proof that it happened. Even if the database is erased, there will be data that came out of the database, or a record of it being ordered, or SOMETHING.

Again I think this is a case where someone wants to create some artificial wiggle room (arbitrarily saying that anything done by an intelligent entity is off limits to science) to allow for the possibility of their personal beliefs.