True, but said evidence is not actually evidence in the scientific sense. It's more that said people tend to not understand science on a scarily fundamental level.
I have no problem with people having faith without scientific evidence to back it up.* As you said up-thread, Faith is belief in the absence of proof.
What I have issues with is people claiming to have such evidence without actually knowing what the hell they are talking about. ("But $book says it's true!" or "But 1 x 10^x other people believe it too, so it must be true!")
It implies not only a worrying lack of understanding of science, but also a rather weak faith.
(*) I am, myself, quite religious, in a very non-standard way. I choose to believe X despite their being no evidence. That's why it's called faith.
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I have no problem with people having faith without scientific evidence to back it up.* As you said up-thread, Faith is belief in the absence of proof.
What I have issues with is people claiming to have such evidence without actually knowing what the hell they are talking about. ("But $book says it's true!" or "But 1 x 10^x other people believe it too, so it must be true!")
It implies not only a worrying lack of understanding of science, but also a rather weak faith.
(*) I am, myself, quite religious, in a very non-standard way. I choose to believe X despite their being no evidence. That's why it's called faith.