It's not like museums with fossils in are hard to come by though.
I get what you're trying to do here, but they're just not comparable. There's a difference between believing someone telling you that a thing exists that you can go look at and they know because they saw it too, and believing someone telling you there's a thing but you can't see it and also they haven't seen it in person, only heard from somebody else.
But...
you believe that you can casually go and confirm this thing, because
you already believe in it.
Hey, maybe you're right. Maybe you can. But, you don't believe it because you've done it. You believe it because you believe it. It's entirely circular. Your faith that you can go and verify dinosaurs fossils
is because you believe in dinosaur fossils. Not because you've verified dinosaur fossils. Maybe fossils are real. But that's not why you believe in them.
And hey, maybe you're one of the few people who've actually held a fossil in your hands. Great! My statements nevertheless apply for
most people. Most people have never held a fossil. Yet, they nevertheless believe that they could casually go and hold a fossil. Why do they believe that evidence is so casually available?
Because they already believe in dinosaurs.
Do you lot believe in something until there is evidence to prove otherwise, or believe in something only
if evidence suggests it so? Do you believe you are immortal until you die?
I'm uncertain about the ultimate nature of reality. I have only my experience from which to judge. I might be a brain in a jar. I could be in the matrix. I could be an omnipotent spirit being creating the hallucination of a physical experience to entertain myself. The entire universe could be a simulation. All I know is my experience, because I am observing it. Everything I actually experience is fundamentally unverifiable. I cannot even truly know that my memory is valid. I could have been created two seconds ago with the memory of an entire lifetime.
or believe in something only if evidence suggests it so?
Given the above, what "evidence" could possibly exist that would justify any belief?
Our only source of evidence is our observed experience. I am aware of no logical justification for believing that our observed experience has any validity beyond the observable fact that it is being experienced.