Conversion

[Jon Paul]

As for what would make me believe in God? Testable and reliable evidence, that satisfies the rigourous standards of the scientific method.

The core principle of the scientific method is that the scope of inquiry that it limits itself to is the investigation of the natural and observable world of natural causes.

In other words, that is an a priori exclusion of the investigation or even the testing of any hypothesis that contains propositions that suggest a factor which transcends the natural world.

This is methodological naturalism, and if you then ask for scientific evidence for God according to the principles of the scientific method, you are commiting the fallacy of question-begging, for God is not within the scope of investigation of the scientific method, according to it's own principles.

All you can possible ask without question begging is evidence for Gods existence according to the classical sense of science as "rational and empirical investigation and inquiry", which makes no a priori presumption of naturalism that would exclude the proposition of God to begin with.

The answer to that question would be, for instance, the TAG, an a priori argument, or the a posteriori argument from potentiality/contingency I formulated in my own thread.