rR writes:
1. Why don't you believe in the divine?
Basically the same reasons given by SNC and ramoss.
Plus I don't see a need for it, or any intellectual benefits arising from such a belief in terms of improved understanding of anything.
The concept of some divine, omnipresent, omnipotent being is just completlely superfluous to my world view and couldn't possibly add any clarification to it.
rR writes:
2. Do you believe in anything without evidence?
I think you might end up with a lot of semantic entanglement on what various people construe the words 'believe' and 'evidence' to imply.
The short answer would be no.
The longer answer is that I don't even like the word believe in application to science. Although I would say
I 'believe' in obvious physical laws such as gravitation, etc. and I 'believe' in the scientific method as the best method for approaching the truth, there is a large body of scientific inference that merits the assignment of various
levels of confidence that fall far short of 'belief', and these levels of confidence are largely determined by the nature and quality of the evidence supporting and/or contradicting the hypotheses.