(June 27, 2018 at 9:11 am)SteveII Wrote:(June 26, 2018 at 8:31 pm)polymath257 Wrote: None of which is evidence of a deity: knowledge of those historical events doesn't change the probability of a deity existing by one bit.
No, they are not information or evidence because the confounds are so extreme as to make the evidence useless for any conclusion.
The experiences of people are evidence only that people have certain experiences under emotional stress. That is an interesting neurological fact about the human species, but doesn't support the existence of a deity.
Your answer seems to be that my list is not evidence because it is insufficient. Setting aside that that is question begging, by that logic then no single piece of information could ever be evidence because by itself it would never be sufficient.
Your last paragraph is nothing but assertions (defined as a claim without evidence). You can't possibly know what other people experience or don't experience.
No, I am not saying it is insufficient. I'm saying it doesn't shift the probabilities of the idea being true or not.
As for the last sentence, that is *precisely* why it isn't evidence: knowing their claim of an experience doesn't change the probability the claim is true.
