The nature of evidence

[robvalue]

Yeah. I couldn't imagine going to a theist forum. I think I'd have a brain haemorrhage.

Here's the "evidence" that we get presented with. I think this covers everything:

1) Personal experience: anecdotes. Very poor evidence.

2) Books: filled with anecdotes. Very poor evidence.

3) Arguments not backed by evidence: Mostly they contain logical fallacies and so are worthless. Even the ones that don't rely entirely on the speculative premises being universally true, which cannot be verified. It's not evidence at all.

That's it. I've never heard of anything else. It's absolutely pathetic. If any theist has evidence that doesn't fall into one of these three categories, I'd love to hear it.

And after all that, you've got to explain why I should care about any of it.