Testimony is Evidence

[Astonished]

Testimony is universally subject to all of those drawbacks at all times. Love when asshat theists try to say the other side uses fallacies, they always fuck it up. You'd think after being called out on using them themselves so often they'd at least do a little better job, but no. Like I said, even if someone is correct, without being able to corroborate it, it's no different than a successful wild stab in the dark. The implicit claim of truth and accuracy in an assertion is worthless without evidence, it contributes nothing as an independent claim. Only increasing the body of evidence does any good. If testimony is that someone saw something roll under the couch while they witnessed a murder taking place, and nothing is found there, but something in fact did but was either removed or continued rolling until it went elsewhere, they're technically telling the truth accurately but it does not a damn bit of good and is indistinguishable from a lie or faulty perception or recollection.

Testimony is just a body of claims interconnected to one initial assertion. Like pieces of a riddle. The riddle itself is useless without the answer (actual evidence).