Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?

[Esquilax]

I don't reject "empirical" scientific evidence and I just posted to another thread today concerning archaeological evidence for the bible. I trust science to the degree that we should. But I also believe in the existence of the supernatural even though science rejects that.

So... you trust science up until the point that it contradicts something you want to believe.

Too many very intelligent people throughout the centuries believed in the supernatural for me to dismiss it - science or not.

Argument from popularity: many people believing something doesn't make it true, and by the way, how many of those smart people also believed in a flat earth, or alchemy, or any number of demonstrably flawed concepts?

If you're not open to anything other than science, then you're the closed-minded one. Science has been proven wrong often, but I wouldn't dismiss it because it has been correct very often. The same and other very intelligent people believed in science also, but I and they wouldn't put all our eggs in that one basket.

I think you have a very skewed view of how evidence and investigation work, Lek. The bible is correct on a number of things, however, that doesn't mean everything in the bible is true; Spiderman comics have New York in them, that doesn't mean Spiderman exists. Its magic claims still have yet to be demonstrated, or even shown to be possible... which is the problem we have.