How Christians and there god sound to me.

[CliveStaples]

Between you and I - I can, because my sample size with regards to us is 100%....but lets extend that further....eh?

Right, you know everything about the population of {you, me}. But your claim isn't about that population. It's about a much bigger population.

As I've already mentioned, our inability to establish that such an interaction occurs leads me to this conclusion. If there's evidence, then just show me the waistband Bob.

This is horrible, horrible logic. "We haven't been able to establish p, so we can conclude ~p!" The fact that you haven't been able to prove something isn't persuasive in the least. What have you done to establish it? What do you think the state of evidence is with regard to the hypothesis in question (whether God interacts with people)? Why should I think that your opinion about the state of evidence is reasonable (i.e., what reasons/evidence do you have to support your characterizations of the evidence for the hypothesis)?

I mean, all you're doing is saying "There is no evidence for the hypothesis." That's it. No evidence for your claim (other than the evidence of my own personal testimony), you're just baldly asserting it.

The reason why I'm asking for evidence is that I could just as easily say, "There is plenty of evidence for the hypothesis." And, based on your standards of bald assertions without supporting evidence, our claims would now be equal and we'd be at an impasse. Both of these claims are useless in a debate without evidence.

Eyewitness testimony that cannot be established as accurate is not evidence that interaction occurred, it's evidence that people see things, tell stories about seeing things...and of course my favorite..that people are entirely too credulous.

Then why did you ask me for my testimony???

I made the claim that we don't have evidence, which is a solid claim in the absence of evidence (do you see any evidence laying around?, because I don't). Seriously Bob, just show me the waistband and I'll take this a hell of alot more seriously.

But you're just claiming that there's an absence of evidence. You're just flatly asserting, "There isn't evidence", and asking me to disprove you. That's bullshit. What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.