Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All - Part 7

Why do we believe things in History happened? Some people say they won't believe something that can't be proven. As in, take it into the laboratory and test it over and over again to see if it behaves in the same manner every time. Well the stuff of history is not made from that kind of stuff. There may be evidence left behind, about something that 'reportedly' happened. i.e. if there was a car accident and both cars caught fire and burned, how would one prove that it happened? what if this accident happened two days ago? how about two months ago? two years ago? 20 years ago? 50 years ago?

Since cars have only been around for a little over a hundred years, if we said that two cars had an accident and caught fire and burned one thousand years ago, one might say that can't be true because there were no cars around a thousand years ago. Things that happened in history must be discovered by the evidence, lack of evidence, other explanations and how plausible these ideas are.

For futher information about this subject please refer to the book that I got my ideas from.

Book

Check out the book Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All by James Sire