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| - Henley gives a detailed explanation of the burden of proof and compares it to the civil burdens of preponderance of the evidence and clear and convincing evidence and explains the irony that while in society we insist that anyone who intends to punish someone or deprive them of property, religion presumes guilt and punitive gods are worshipped with blind faith. Throughout the work, Henley relies on a large number of different legal principles and tools of reasoning, including the Best Evidence Rule, the Hearsay Rule, Due Process, Contract Law.
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| - Henley gives a detailed explanation of the burden of proof and compares it to the civil burdens of preponderance of the evidence and clear and convincing evidence and explains the irony that while in society we insist that anyone who intends to punish someone or deprive them of property, religion presumes guilt and punitive gods are worshipped with blind faith. Relying on his four years as a prosecutor in South Texas, Henley compares the creation myths of all cultures to short-sighted "alibis" that criminal suspects manufacture to avoid arrest and prosecution. And that like a suspect who has told some tale to the police, proponents of religion are "stuck" with their accounts as science and modern reasoning continue to unearth evidence discrediting them. Throughout the work, Henley relies on a large number of different legal principles and tools of reasoning, including the Best Evidence Rule, the Hearsay Rule, Due Process, Contract Law. Besides Creationist accounts, Henley also attacks the Gospels and Intelligent Design which he explains state and federal courts would not recognize under [Daubert v. DuPont]. One of the writer's more controversial propositions, though, is that Christianity damns individuals like Ronald Reagan and Terri Schiavo, because their impairment precludes their formulating the requisite belief in any God for salvation. In this argument, Henley extends the centuries-old debate concerning infant damnation to the mentally infirm.
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