Evidence-Based Spirituality

Evidence-Based Spirituality, also known as Scientific Spirituality, Evidence-Based Spiritualism and Scientific Spiritualism, is a form of spirituality that seeks the development of a scientific approach on spirituality and the search for spiritual evidences for spirituality, it opposes the notion that evidences are only highly stringent, repeatable, double-blind, peer reviewed, materialism-compatible research, for all phenomena and it believes in "Different Methods for Different Domains" and in Epistemological Pluralism in order to study spiritual phenomena like Near-Death Experiences, Astral Projection, Mediumship, Out-of-body experiences, Spiritual phenomena, Spiritual experiences, spiritual healing, spirits, souls, consciousness, afterlife, extraphysics, extraphysical life, spiritual worlds, other dimensions and so on. Evidence-Based Spirituality also opposes the notions of scientism and neopositivism and it often uses the notions of extraphysicalism, extramaterialism, extranaturalism and spiritualicism for its studies and the separation of spiritual sciences from natural sciences where natural sciences cannot determine spiritual things and it's a thing that only spiritual sciences can actually determine.

"The notion of evidence-based spirituality might be really good in order to counter the material reductionism and the neopositivism inside the spiritual community and scientific community and the development of spiritual sciences and even lead into new discoveries related to spirituality and everything related to it."

by Full Monteirism June 4, 2021

decision-based evidence making

An alternative to evidence-based decision making, "decision-based evidence making" is the practice of collecting evidence to support a pre-existing decision, rather than using evidence in any way to inform the decision itself.

This technique typically involves cherry-picking sources or relying on bad or unreliable authorities to justify or legitimise (after the fact) a questionable decision which has already been made.

Dr. Daniel Jernigan resigned from CDC in 2025, telling reporters that Robert F Kennedy Jr seems to be "going from evidence-based decision making to decision-based evidence making" as the Centres for Disease Control began citing debunked studies to support a dodgy claim that vaccines cause autism.

by bitchuck November 20, 2025

manecdotal evidence

Invented evidence made up on the spot and presented as hard fact in support of mansplaining.

President Trump offered mostly manecdotal evidence, but the media had learned their lesson well, by now, and dutifully recorded it all as fact.

by linguisticautistic.com June 13, 2017

Photonical evidence

Evidence that comes from the phone. Such as pictures, call recordings, screenshots, ect.

"hey girl I got you some 'photonical evidence'

by Lalabumdum07 February 5, 2024

Whimpirical Evidence

The sort of evidence presented by a fickle person based on their hunch. The opposite of empirical evidence.

She only had whimpirical evidence why I shouldn't do it

by hicksandhudson January 13, 2011

Carlson Evidence

Shocking or damning evidence that has to the potential to fundamentally affect an outcome, but that the holder can't ever show you.

"He argued he had Carlson evidence proving he did not steal the petty cash from his employer, that he had copies of it, and it would clear his name, but he could never show it to anyone because the only copy was lost."

by JG_in_SB October 30, 2020

Burn the evidence

Smoking a joint whilst its still illegal... You light up and “burn the evidence” of your crime.

Person A: Yo, I just rolled us a joint.

Person B: Cool, let’s burn the evidence.

by Frono21 May 20, 2021