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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, it does.

An "extraordinary claim" is a claim that is incompatible with our current understanding of the world based on a large body of prior evidence and belief.

Claiming someone walked on water requires substantially more, more persuasive evidence than claiming someone walked on a road. A video is extremely strong evidence of the latter and not meaningful evidence of the former, because the priors are different.