Articulate enough? You haven't even tried to explain yourself. You've only made statements, no explanations.
Well, I have never been able to consciously CHOOSE any of the beliefs that I have, and no one that I have asked has been able to do it either.
This is a statement, and a false one at that. There are several people here telling you that they have the ability to choose.
If you are implying that you can consciously CHOOSE to believe things, I wonder if you might explain how you do it.
Sure, evidence is not proof. Anything beyond evidence, is a choice of believing. That is a decision you make based on many things.
Plus if we weren't actually able to choose, then that word wouldn't even exist.
What do you do at the last moment to instantly change your one state of belief to another?
The reasons for that are numerous. You may not believe in God, because there are no good reasons too. But then certain things happen in your life, and you change your mind based on evidence, be it subjective, or objective. You could even change your mind again.
We think, therefor we are.
CHOOSE to believe - be convinced without a doubt - that they exist.
Who said anything about "without a doubt"?
There are always doubts, if something cannot be proven. That's why there are many different levels of belief.
Evolution has an overwhelming amount of evidence (so I am told) so people believe in it very strongly. But not beyond the shadow of a doubt. If new evidence popped up tomorrow against it, any logical rational person would have to change their minds.
Same thing with God. A person could be an atheist all his life, and at one moment, an angel could appear to him, and then he might change his mind. But he doesn't have to, he can choose to go on not believing.
Leprechauns? I believe in them. I was one in my 6th grade play called revenge of the leprechaun.
I believe in the possibility that they could exist, but that level of belief is just about zero. There is nothing to base my belief on. Just stories, and the stories are not relevant to me or anything I have experienced (other than the school play) at all.