My beliefs carry importance to me.
Good for you.
Just don't expect me to share your belief that they are important if you can't show me why.
True. So how do we tell which positions are valid?
Answer: We look for ways to TEST them. And if lots of people can put something to the test and they consistently get the same result, then maybe that has something going for it.
On the other hand, if people put something to the test and they get different results, then maybe their idea is just bunk.
Ditto. Obviously Christians who believe have found evidences they needed. Those evidences are outside the box of science.
Yes, obviously they did find something that was enough to convince them. But when it comes to evidence that can be double checked and verified, where are we then?
Science has had effects also..WOMD, pollution, sex changes, lobotomies, and some good things also. In both cases the reason we have effects is because there is a cause.
Yet science and religion are very different things. They both say, "If you do X, you will get Y."
Science says, "If you pass an electrical current through water, you will split it into hydrogen and oxygen." We can do it and test the result to see if the claims made by science are correct.
Christianity says, "If you believe in God, you will go to Heaven." But there's no way to test this, is there. How do you conduct a census for Heaven? No, you can't check it at all. All you can do is look at other claims made by Christianity and go by what that says. All claims, no testable evidence.