Definition of "evidentialist" [evidentialist]

• Of or supporting evidentialism, the doctrine that evidence is of primary importance in questions of belief (adjective)
• One who supports or argues for evidentialism (noun)

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• "It was a debate about atheism between Christopher Hitchens and Dr. William Lane Craig, described in this article as "an 'evidentialist' in that he argues for the existence of God based on evidence not presupposition.""
• "However, for those overly evidentialist sorts that find any speculation without evidence too distasteful to even express, you may be spared reading further."
• "When one lives out certain practices -- regular time for reflection/meditation/prayer; living constructively within a community of people, many of whom are very different politically and demographically; giving one's time and money and resources to move things in a better direction -- this seems to me to be much more related to most believers' lives than hammering out evidentialist implications of, say, the Nicene creed."