(June 27, 2018 at 12:32 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: an·ec·do·tal
adjective: anecdotal
(of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.
Every thesaurus has the following words as synonyms for anecdotal:
unreliable, untrustworthy, based on rumour, unscientific
So, I stand by my previous statement.
No matter how many unreliable, untrustworthy, based on rumour and/or unscientific accounts there are, the results are not good evidence.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
