What came first, the atheist or the theist?

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If it's not evidence then why is it called non empirical evidence?? You're not meant to be able to conclude anything independently. That's the point.

From wikianswers:

From the Miriam Webster online dictionary empirical means: 1 : originating in or based on observation or experience 2 : relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory 3 : capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment

AND - From a Psychology dictionary : Derived from naturalistic observation of from experimental procedures.

Empirical evidence is evidence from observations. From my understanding it can be through naturalistic observation (the in depth observation of a phenomenon in its natural setting) or Experimental (maniplulating an independent variable to observe its effects on a dependant variable). Experimental evidence is much more reliable as naturalistic observations are vulnerable to researcher bias.

Ergo, non-empirical evidence means is it not any of those things from above, which means it doesn't actually proove anything.
All evidence that can be tested, observed, and verified is empirical evidence. Therefore, non-epirical evidence is akin to saying that I have a non-chocolate non-shake that prooves that I have something edible in my hand.