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This is a bad argument overall. Are you familiar with David Hume and "Empiricism"? In the extreme the empiricist says that we can only determine cause and effect if we experience the event. So if I flip a switch in my home and the lights across the room go off you are only inferring that there is a connection between the two. Even if I do it a billion times and each time the light goes off or on, there is a possibility it could be pure random chance. Like flipping a billion heads on a coin in a row. Statisitcally unlikely but not perfectly impossible.
So when people say "Have you seen 4.5 billion years pass?" They are hoping to leverage this type of "empistemological doubt". It fails.
Now let us see how YOU likely abuse your own edict: do you believe that God created the earth 10000 years ago? WERE YOU THERE? Did you SEE GOD GUIDE THE HANDS OF THE WITNESSES WHO WERE THERE TO WRITE THE BOOK OF GENESIS? No? Well, then you are hoisted on your own petard. It is unfortunate, but indeed it cuts both ways.
In your first example, it is more like hitting a button once. Several things occur after,
but you have no idea which, if any were directly tied to hitting that button. Every time
afterward when you hit it, something different or nothing happens. Is it doing anything?
The same could be asked of any court witness. Their testimony stands on its own.
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