Obviously posters are siding one way or the other in who they believe. That's fine. Might we consider the following?
If you are a police officer arriving at an accident with 5 witnesses to the car accident, you will get a different description from every witness and many times they are quite conflicting in details. Colors of the car don't match or the way the accident happened are many times the polar opposite among witnesses. I had a Dallas Police Investigator tell me there is a simple reason for that. He suggested a person processes information in a way much like a camera takes pictures. You can press the shutter but there is a length of time between each frame. The mind digests these frames and connects the dots.
So, at an accident, witnesses give you pieces of the puzzle that offer clues to what happened. He said his job was to be savvy enough to understand what those clues were so he could complete the puzzle. He said in all his years he never got exactly the same sequence of events from two witnesses no matter how many saw it happen.
He pointed out that this happens when we see something unexpected and perceive it as a danger even if that danger is not to us personally, calling it an animal instinct. He noted picking up his cat while it was witnessing two other cats in a fight. He got clawed. The cat, although not involved in the fight, was tense and scared by what it witnessed.
If you are a police officer arriving at an accident with 5 witnesses to the car accident, you will get a different description from every witness and many times they are quite conflicting in details. Colors of the car don't match or the way the accident happened are many times the polar opposite among witnesses. I had a Dallas Police Investigator tell me there is a simple reason for that. He suggested a person processes information in a way much like a camera takes pictures. You can press the shutter but there is a length of time between each frame. The mind digests these frames and connects the dots.
So, at an accident, witnesses give you pieces of the puzzle that offer clues to what happened. He said his job was to be savvy enough to understand what those clues were so he could complete the puzzle. He said in all his years he never got exactly the same sequence of events from two witnesses no matter how many saw it happen.
He pointed out that this happens when we see something unexpected and perceive it as a danger even if that danger is not to us personally, calling it an animal instinct. He noted picking up his cat while it was witnessing two other cats in a fight. He got clawed. The cat, although not involved in the fight, was tense and scared by what it witnessed.
