... eye witnesses to support that belief and that evidence can be documented.
Is Santa thus more likely to be true or false?
2006-10-12 18:17:32 · 10 answers · asked by lenny 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is a fairly large amount of evidence to support the existence of Santa Claus. There is tons of anecdotal evidence (millions of people have claimed to have seen or heard him) and hundreds of books detailing how he came into existence. Many of these books are still available in their original format and can be checked for veracity. Not to mention that gifts mysteriously appear all over the world on Christmas. Sounds good to me.
2006-10-12 18:21:51 · answer #1 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False. Santa is a cultural myth that has crossed barriers and seen world wide. He isn't even called the same in every country - my British hubby calls him Father Christmas instead. Just because a number of people see 'Santa's' hanging out in malls doesn't make him real. The whole myth is loosely based on the events of one man's real life and it took off from there.
2006-10-12 19:53:11 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen Military Officers on TV giving radar tracking reports of his vehicles movements on Xmass eve. Either Santa is real or military officers lie out of habit. An Air Force Officer in uniform would not lie in a public forum so Santa must be real
2006-10-13 19:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You missed my addition. I asked how do we KNOW that George Washington was the first President of the United States. We believe that to be true and we could provide historical evidence in a court room but all we could do would be to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was true and then people might differ on what constituted a reasonable doubt.
It's the same with God. I can provide you with some links like this one where the founder of the Harvard school of Law set out to prove that Christianity wasn't plausible but after taking the role of prosecutor in the case he had to conced the case and his life to Christ.
http://christjesus.us/greenleaf.html
2006-10-12 18:23:20 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hhmmm. Santa is a frame of mind, not a person. It is in the spirit of giving that we invented Santa. Although. .. St Nicholas was a true person. So if you are referring to him...true. Guy in a big red suit on a corner with a paper bag in one hand and a change bucket in the other...false.
2006-10-12 18:22:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
False... There are no historical bases (plural) upon which the Santa Claus, as we know him, are based.
Where are the empirical supportive evidences, not circumstantial evidences?
2006-10-12 18:18:48 · answer #6 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, but Santa's stories are so tied into stories about Odin, that it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. That is why Santa Claus is a god to me.
2006-10-12 18:21:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any human mind can imagine that a perfect being exists, even if they do not understand it. Because they conceive it in their mind, then it must be real, at least in their mind. Since, it is real in their mind then it must be real in reality because if it was not, then you would not have conceived a perfect being. Surely a being that exists in reality and the mind is greater than one that only exists in the mind, so it must be that being which exists in both that the person was originally thinking about, because if a being has something that is greater than itself, then it is not perfect. So, as long as you can imagine a perfect Santa, logically He must exist.
2006-10-14 10:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did ancient men make up a story to control people through Santa? If so, than he must be real.
2006-10-12 18:23:58 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Did Santa snuff someone as he was growing up?
2006-10-12 18:22:09 · answer #10 · answered by Ladeebug71 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋