Most people believe most of what they believe on the basis OF evidence....the evidence they gained through their own past experiences. That accounts for the lion's share of what they believe and take for granted in life.

Then there is the stuff they've heard about, but have no little or no evidence for or against yet. They may tend to believe in some of it or they may not, depending on what the want to believe in.

That's what you object to, Clinton. It's got nothing to do really with evidence.

There is no evidence against most of the stuff you automatically reject. If there were evidence for it (and there may be) you wouldn't be imterested. Your mind is all made up already, regardless of evidence, unless that evidence is presented by certain specific official authorities you respect, in which case you would immediately get on board, I imagine.

Like most people, you believe exactly what you already wanted to believe...whether or not there's any evidence for or against it. You are impervious to evidence, in my opinion, unless it fits your belief systems. So are most people.

And anyway, the evidence that most sceptics say they require in order to alter their beliefs is usually NOT clearly available, and if it were, they wouldn't go out and seek it! Therefore they can remain safe and unchanged in their beliefs...just like religious fanatics do. They just ignore, deny, or laugh at everything they don't agree with. That's what you do.

You really ought to become religious, because you've got the perfect mindset for it already. You know all there is to know. Religions thrive on that attitude.