No, faith cannot be verified by anyone. It can be justified, it simply cannot be demonstrated to be objectively true to anyone, including the believer. Faith is an emotional crutch, it's a means of feeling better about the world when you cannot accept it for what it actually is. It's a security blanket for those who are too weak to cast it off and deal with reality as it is. You can laugh at it all you want, that doesn't change a thing.
Faith is an "emotional crutch"? Really? So the FAITH that our system of jurisprudence places on the verdict of 12 men/women on a jury is nothing but an emotional crutch? What objective proof do these men/women have to declare the guilt or innocence of anyone...if in fact they were not direct eyewitnesses of the act in question? Faith must be applied by both the jury in accepting the sworn testimony of any key witness brought forward by either the prosecution or defense, and by the STATE or authority conducting the trail, must have faith in the verdict. How many people are convicted of a crime on a daily basis here in these United States based purely upon "prima facie" evidences, i.e., evidences that are not witnessed but believed to be true beyond the reason of any sane person to doubt otherwise?
What about the FAITH that you might have in a physician? You might place your life into the hands of a total stranger because you have FAITH that you will not be the 1 in 10 that might die on the operating table undergoing the same procedure.....is that FAITH an emotional crutch?
I for one can prove to you that Christian Faith...true Christian Faith is anything but BLIND FAITH based upon nothing but emotion and hope. Christian Faith is based upon Objective Testable Evidences. 1.) Christian Faith comes from only one source...the word of God, "...faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the WORD OF GOD." -- Romans 10:16,17. 2.) The Christian is admonished to TEST EVERYTHING, and to hold onto that which is proven to be good -- 1 Thess. 5:21 3.) No one is born with an innate sense of Christianity, it must come from Hearing, and how does one hear and how has the Faith been passed from Generation to Generation over the last 2000 years if such is not grounded in the Word of God...i.e., the Holy Scriptures? Is faith a miracle? Hardly, Christian Faith comes by placing those Scriptures to the TEST. Simply prove One truth that is presented in the Holy Scriptures to be a documented, observed, untruth by using Physical Science or History Actual. The Scriptures are Objectively recorded, they read exactly the same regardless of what faith or lack of faith that you might have in the words that are being communicated.
Please...no Prima Facie Philosophy expected to be accepted as SCIENCE, no theories, speculations, assumptions..etc. Physical Laws of Science and History Actual applied where they might be tested.
Christians do not reject genuine proven facts of science. What many do dispute are unsupported theories that have been designed in an attempt to explain those facts (philosophy). For example, it is a fact that there are certain similarities between the bone structure of men and animals. However, it is an unsubstantiated speculation to suggest that this indicates that humans evolved from animals. No one is opposed to true Science which derives facts from Observed, Reproduced Experimentation.
And even attempting to measure the Supernatural by applying Natural Law is an absurd act of illogical lunacy. Example someone attempting to claim that God lied when He gave the appearance of an Old Earth when Science PROVES the earth to be billions of years old? Really? Just what Observed, Reproduced Experiment was used in calculating that age? The assumption of Carbon Dating which states that the rate of decay in certain elements has remained constant throughout antiquity? Really..again? Simple water leeching does not effect that rate of decay whatsoever? The real fact is the truth.....there is no source of calibrating any age past that of RECORDED HISTORY without introducing speculation....any age past that which can be verified by history actual is based upon...that TRUTH AGAIN.....PRIMA FACIE..which in reality is nothing but a truth based upon FAITH.
I for one again, would like to know just where the secular types keep their SUPERNATURAL-O-METER that allows them to test things which are by definition BEYOND NATURE or SUPERIOR to....