A Question for Believers and Non Believers

[twocompulsive]

Um...I have not copyrighted the word, dear.

True. However: your post count and personality back up your using 'Evidence' to simplify a greater statement. What you say is certain, it's a known quantity. You speak your own language.

When a random person asks for evidence, it's not necessarily intersubjectively verifiable data evidenced by the scientific method. Ie: I've heard plenty of religious people settle for 'personal evidence' when asked for evidence.

One must not be satisfied with the statement of an individual merely because they possess authority on a given subject. It is the message that is important, not who is referencing it. Some of the greatest minds ever have made major scientific miscalculations. Their greatness in those respects counted for absolutely nothing. Generally speaking however, the more wise and learned one is, the less likely they are to become prone to error. But no one is infallible. Everything must always be checked and scrutinised irrespective of whoever is stating it. I am just as guilty of this as anyone else. But even so. No excuses.

Personal evidence and scientific evidence are not the same thing. The first is subjective and prone to confirmation bias. And is to all intents and purposes an oxymoron. The second - the scientific method - is the only reliable indicator of how to accurately measure a hypothesis. That is a universal that is employed in science as a standard tool for investigation. Subjectivity doesn't enter the equation at all. Because the moment it does then that experiment becomes invalid.

And this brings me onto something else. How we sometimes have great difficulty in accepting what is and isn't true. And I mean truth in the objective sense. Subjective interpretation of factual knowledge is essentially unnecessary and useless. The onus is not for us to mould truth to our world view but the exact opposite. The number who make this classic error is staggering. Accept what is true irrespective of how you feel about it. Even better : accept what is true without having a subjective opinion one way or the other on it.