That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

        On the other hand, throughout the years people have been evolving their ways of thinking by searching for the answers of why things happened. These results have changed people into rational beings who nowadays are in need of factual evidence in order to believe what surrounds them. In previous decades and even today, myths have existed. Earlier, people would just believe that every myth was true without even asking for physical proves. In this day and age, there are people trying to demonstrate if those myths are true by trail and error methods among others. With this we are able to see how the way of thinking of humans has changed over time from being credulous to being more logical. Another perfect example, in accordance to scientists, is the extinction of dinosaurs. This theory expresses how dinosaurs were banished from the face of the Earth as consequence of the impact of a comet/meteor. This led to the breaking of the subterranean waters that situated the continents where they are located in the present day. It is also said that at the time when the meteor/comet stroke the Earth, mountains were created while carrying the sediments up with them. Now the question is, how do we know today that this is what really happened millions of years ago? This is one of the reasons why today humans seek for answers on how and why things happen. In other

words, the human being requires facts regarding that he cannot verify. Let’s take the idea of the existence of God as an omnipotent, omnipresent and benevolent being because that’s what we were told as kids.  Faith can be said to be the complete trust or confidence in someone or something. It takes a lot of faith to believe and to not believe in God. Since there are many explanations to how Earth was created, each person has their own opinion and the religion that they follow has also part into what people believe. There are also people that not only believe in God but they also believe in and angels and virgins. Taking back into account Hitchen’s quote, Does God really exists?

        Just like reason, our perception and our senses play an important role when demonstrating that something is real or how something took place. Perception is defined as everything that we can see, touch, hear, taste and smell. Therefore, If we take into consideration the idea that man make assumptions all the time without having sufficient evidence, then the following example will perfectly fit this argument, “How can we tell whether a tree falling in the woods produces sound if there is no one that could listen to it or see it fall?” There are several examples in which someone knows what happens through their senses. For instance, when you see that lunch is ready, you know it’s time to eat. When someone smells coffee, they know it is coffee time. When there is water boiling for tea and you listen the squeaking sound that the teapot makes, you know that it is time to get the teapot off the stove, also when you taste something that is sweet, you know you are eating a dessert, or if you touch something that is hot, your reaction will be to take your hand off it. These examples demonstrate that there is no need of a scientific method to have evidence that something took place; we can instead use our senses to have the evidence.

        This essay has developed the quote by Christopher Hitchens “That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence” As this essay was developed, it depicted how Hitchen’s quote is ethically related to emotions, reason and perception.