The Idea of Evidence

An extraction from the book Adeology

From the chapter: A Very Human Invention

        What is evidence? Of course, it obviously depends on any given circumstance—but in general, what is evidence to you, dear reader? Is it merely that which proves something to be? To be real? To be true? To be evident? To be evidently true? To be truly evidently real? Is that something physical? Is it only physical? What does it look like? Can it sound like something? What does it sound like? Isn’t a sound a physical reverberation from sound wave to eardrum? Is that not considered “feeling something”? Isn’t feeling something a physical experience? Can’t I feel my emotions? People literally die from broken hearts—and isn’t that how feelings work, that you feel them? Does that prove that metaphysics exists in reality? Can it, evidence, be metaphysical, then? For example: if I believe god exists, then god exists, right? But then—and not for nothing—wouldn’t that also prove that the “super”natural is just natural? Talk about a circular firing line of thought!
The original title idea for this book was, The Idea of God, which quickly became a non-believer’s journey down the path of “the idea of evidence”—which, in turn, quickly led me to me realize that we didn’t have enough dialectically intellectual artillery on the side of non-belief to oppose the imposition of state-sanctioned deity worship in public places—that not enough “evidence” had “materialized” on “our end” of the god-debate to win back secular freedom in opposing the imposition of deity worship throughout electable forums—and, that by continuing to play by their rules, we continue to lose. So, I invented more intellectual ammunition for the non-believer to use in the god-debate.

…hence, adeology.