(January 8, 2015 at 3:19 pm)robvalue Wrote: No, personal testimony is not evidence. Sorry. If that's all it took, anyone can just claim anything. You need to be able to demonstrate something repeatedly before its convincing to a sceptic. Multiple testimonies might be a starting point, but investigation is then needed.No one gave you authority to determine what is and is not evidence, and I don't care if you find it convincing.
Quote:The claim someone loves you is not falsifiable. You could discover them behaving in ways that demonstrate they don't, like you find them cheating on you. I'm not talking about absolute truths here. I'm talking about having access to some sort of test or data.OK, now you acknowledge that a claim does not necessarily need to be falsifiable in order to be reasonably assessed. That's progress.
The claim someone loves you could be reasonably assessed with evidence, and you could come to a valid conclusion. I see no problem there. It's a scientific method of sorts, you're dealing with real evidence.
Quote:Can anyone even define God in a coherent way? I don't think we even got that far. Or spirituality, ghosts, anything you like.Here's one dictionary definition:
a supernatural being, who is worshipped as the controller of some part of the universe or some aspect of life in the world or is the personification of some force
