The nature of evidence

[TheRealJoeFish]

Here's another way I'd put it:

Any evidence that is equally strong for the existence of any deity is actually evidence for the existence of no deity at all.

For example: If there are accounts of miracles being performed by deities in judaism, islam, christianity, hinduism, and buddhism, and those five things are incompatible, then those accounts of miracles are evidence that "people everywhere say they see miracles", not of any one deity being true. There's a jew, a muslim, a hinduist, and a buddhist somewhere out there with better evidence for their religion than you have for yours. That tends to show that they're all wrong.