Not on evidence, there is none. Not on functional value, there is none. And not on honest open-mindedness because that's been rejected by definition. So one what, then?
I do not believe in bigfoot, flying saucers, Atlantis,
Batboy, wild tigers yet roaming the hills of Hong Kong,
or various other such. If someone wants evidence
for their absence, let them so entertain themselves.
"Honest, open minded" idiots may be particularly
drawn to it
"Theists"of course think that their "god" is in
some special category of non existence such
that hard evidence that it is not there is demanded.
You may be one of those who actually can choose to believe
whatever you choose.
Now me, I do, or, I do not believe. I am not into
self deception which is what your
choice is.
How deception of any sort is honest, I will leave
to the "philosophers" for whom such is the substance
of thought.
Perhaps there is "functional value" in such trivial
pursuits. I will leave that for the philosophers to
derive nourishment from it.
The theist / philosoper always and
anon shows that they simply cannot cenceive of
how to think like someone who does not base
their thinking on the purported existence of "god".
Anyone not like them is, after all, defined by them
as closed minded and dishonest.