VICTOR J ZAMMIT
A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife
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Dr Carl Sagan popularized, “Extra-ordinary claims require extra-ordinary evidence” which Dr Marcello Truzzi had introduced in his writings on skepticism.

Here are SIX reasons why Carl Sagan’s claim that ‘extra-ordinary claims require extra-ordinary evidence’ is ABSOLUTELY WRONG - something which has misled and misinformed a number of skeptics over the years.

It’s something which the skeptics have been repeating even though Carl Sagan eventually accepted aspects of the paranormal.

Five reasons:

1. Carl Sagan was a scientist, an astronomer who studied theoretical physics. This means he never had to prove any claim to anyone in his lifetime. He knew absolutely NOTHING about the different levels of admissibility of evidence.

2. We attorneys, lawyers and judges are the true EXPERTS in evidence. We have the expertise, the skills and the competence to know what levels of evidence are required to accept any claim.

3. Scientists NEVER apply Carl Sagan’s claim. As a matter of fact, pharmaceutical scientists use the legal civil test of ‘on balance of probabilities’ to validate the safety of their drugs. This means that for their extraordinary claim that drugs cure cancer – like chemotherapy – these scientists only have to prove 51% that their drugs are safe! These scientists are not even using the test of beyond reasonable doubt!

4. When Galileo made that very extraordinary claim to the Pope that that it is the earth which goes around the sun, not the sun which goes around the earth, Galileo did NOT NEED extra-ordinary evidence. All Galileo had to do was to have evidence that was objective and repeatable. That ABSOLUTELY proved his EXTRA-ORDINARY claim!

5. And to-day we have the objective and repeatable evidence for the afterlife and the paranormal-- evidence that no Professor Carl Sagan, no Prof Stephan Hawking, no Professor Richard Dawkins or any other reductionist scientist has been able to rebut in twenty years.

I have presented this irrefutable afterlife evidence in the new book: A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife.

Available from Amazon.com

July 2013.

Victor Zammit website: www.victorzammit.com/

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