Your "evidence", is the thing that requires faith to be accepted...
No, just investigation.
Which you would then only do because you want to believe it.
I do not
want to believe in God, but I am
compelled to believe because of Baha'u'llah, which is the evidence for me.
My late husband could easily testify to that if he was still here on earth.
I would not. Why on earth would you think that I would?
It's exactly what I ask for: objectively verifiable evidence.
It's the only evidence that matters.
Correction: Objectively verifiable evidence is the only evidence that
matters to you.
You cannot speak for other people and what matters to them because you don't know.
Unverifiable "evidence", isn't evidence at all. It fails to fullfill the whole point of "evidence", which is to render something more plausible.
Adding just another claim to be believed (like unverifiable "testimony"), does not make it more plausible.
Unverifiable "evidence", isn't evidence
to you, but it is evidence.
Evidence: the available body of facts or information
indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid:
https://www.google.com/search
Evidence is
anything that you see, experience,
read, or are
told that causes you to believe that something is true or has
really happened.
Objective evidence definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Proof: evidence or argument
establishing or helping to establish a fact or the truth of a statement:
https://www.google.com/search
There are many kinds of evidence, and not all evidence is verifiable.
Verifiable evidence is proof because it establishes something as a fact.
Fact: something that is
known to have
happened or to
exist,
especially something for which
proof exists, or about which there is
information:
fact
You wouldn't require faith.
Who said I required faith? It does require faith to believe the claims about God's attributes, such as God is loving, since there is no way to know they are true, but it doesn't require faith to believe that God exists, since there is so much evidence.
I'm well aware of that. You are a fine example.
Unfortunately, when it comes to religions, a lot of theists fail to reason properly and view evidence rationally.
The more fundamentalist they are, the more problems they usually have with that also.
Just because
a lot of theists fail to reason properly and view evidence rationally that doesn't mean that
all theists fail to reason properly and view evidence rationally. To claim that would be the fallacy of hasty generalization.
Myeah okay... i was assuming people are all rational.
Yes, people who fail at rational reasoning have problems with properly evaluating evidence, you are correct.
Point for you.
You mean you were assuming that everyone thinks
like you, which you consider rational.
So anyone who does not think
like you fails at rational reasoning ans has problems with properly evaluating evidence.
You do not even bother to evaluate the evidence, you just discount it out of hand, and I don't consider that rational reasoning.
“If a man were to declare, ‘There is a lamp in the next room which gives no light’, one hearer might be satisfied with his report, but a wiser man goes into the room to judge for himself, and behold, when he finds the light shining brilliantly in the lamp, he knows the truth!”
“Again, a man proclaims: ‘There lies a garden in 104 which there are trees with broken branches bearing no fruit, and the leaves thereof are faded and yellow! In that garden, also, there are flowering plants with no blooms, and rose bushes withered and dying—go not into that garden!’ A just man, hearing this account of the garden, would not be content without seeing for himself whether it be true or not. He, therefore, enters the garden, and behold, he finds it well tilled; the branches of the trees are sturdy and strong, being also loaded with the sweetest of ripe fruits amongst the luxuriance of beautiful green leaves. The flowering plants are bright with many-hued blossoms; the rose bushes are covered with fragrant and lovely roses and all is verdant and well tended. When the glory of the garden is spread out before the eyes of the just man, he praises God that, through unworthy calumny, he has been led into a place of such wondrous beauty!”
