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If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

— Francis Crick

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✓Similar Perspectives

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

— Aubrey de Grey

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

— Ken Thompson

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

— Martin H. Fischer

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

— Bernard Goldberg

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

— Simon Greenleaf

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

— Michael Shermer

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

— Francis Crick

✗Opposing Perspectives

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

— Ken Thompson

No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

— Ken Ham