The Evidence Required Is?

[downbeatplumb]

Some say belief in deity is not scientific in the sense of not being falsifiable. But can't something be true even if it isn't falsifiable. For example, in the movie Contact, the boyfriend of the Jodie Foster character says, "prove that I love you." That appears to be an example of the kinds of statements that can be true but not be disprovable and in the same class as the "Hard Problem" of David Chalmers. How can you prove that other people are self-aware? If a computer passed the Turing test could you prove that it was or was not conscious? Etc.

I think I can answer the "prove you love your father" question to an acceptable level.

1: Love is an acknowledged, common and well understood human emotion.
2: It is the norm to love close family members, when people dont it is shocking and sad.
3: Jodie fosters character acted in a way consistant with love for her father.
4: Her characters emotions displayed appropriate respsonses to his demise.

She did not make an extradinary claim in saying she loved her father so he above "proofs" would be sufficient to prove with a reasonable level of certainty she loved her father.

Comparing love for a father to the existance of the impossible magic man in the sky is just silly.