The nature of evidence

[robvalue]

Yeah, I don't know what they're doing here.

I wish there was some way we could get them to... hear themselves. Do you know what I mean? Just turning up and quoting passages from a random book like that's meant to mean something to us.

If you have evidence for something, go ahead and present it. It should be evident that it backs up the claim, to those people qualified to understand it. If you have to try and persuade someone that your evidence is more convincing that it appears, or that your claim is special and doesn't require proper evidence, then you've failed. Just announcing your audience to be ignorant is also not a way to convince them.

People don't seem to realise that I don't give a fuck even if there is a god, or if that God is the vile cartoon character in a popular storybook. I don't care. What are they hoping to convince me of?