Testimony is Evidence

[Thumpalumpacus]

This is not the case.  You hold ideas which I do not accept as likely to represent truth.  If you want me to seriously consider, and potentially accept, your ideas, you'll have to demonstrate the quality and kind of evidence which will convince ME.

This is the crux of the matter. Gravity, for instance, has no use for religions browbeating adherents with the threat of eternal damnation for non-acceptance, and there's a reason for that: gravity is evident to anyone walking the Earth who endeavors to jump, or even climb out of bed. We experience it directly. It is evidenced in every moment of our experience unless we're shot into space. And even then we must muster enormous amounts of energy to achieve that feat.

It is a fact. And facts have a nice property: they make themselves plain.

Any claim which must appeal to apologetics, panegyrics, and threats is probably not a fact.