Come one, come all!

[Vincent]

Well, sure, but still and all...it's an odd thing to compare.

Boru

I use the comparison when people try to tell me that someone's isolated and non-reproducable near-death experience is actual concrete undeniable evidence for God's existence. They say, "Person X had a NDE where they saw Heaven and talked to Jesus! They KNOW they saw these things. Therefore God must exist, because it's solid empirical evidence!" To which I respond, "Every year, scattered reports arise of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. They claim that they KNOW they were abducted. By your same logic then, this MUST be undeniable proof that we have been visited by extraterrestrials! So why doesn't our government do something about it?"
To which they will usually pull out an ad populum that can be easily refuted.