Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

[Pat Mustard]

He does not have to worry about extraordinary evidence.  At this point he needs to worry about ANY evidence.  All he can offer is the absurd bleating of ancient believers.

It isn't nearly good enough.

“We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.”

― Robert G. Ingersoll,

The christian (official) attitude to evidence in one sentence "happy are those who have not seen, yet still believe", written in the gospel written last and with the least relation to reality.