Thank you for the encouragement!
Of course you do not know me. We have just met.
Actually, you sound very familiar.
I must tell you that I am immune to the quoting of scripture. It is faith and I am in pursuit of objective nowledge before I die.
Your "immunity" means that you do not yet have "ears to hear" or in the alternative, you choose to ignore what you hear. That is not a good thing because "the rest of the story" can only be spiritually discerned.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. – I Corinthians 2:14
Objective knowledge is only available to one who can see "all that there is" all at once. That One of course, is God. The natural man is merely an observer "in" space/time. Your "immunity" prevents you from achieving your goal.
What "thing" do you encounter that isn't made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons?
Again, in the absence of space, things cannot exist. In the absence of time, events cannot occur. Space/time is required for physical causation. Ditto for physical laws, protons, neutrons, electrons, photons. God is not a "thing" or an "event."
Nor is God a hypothesis. I've known Him personally for half a century and counting. His Name is I AM.
But your "immunity" prevents you from knowing Him and therefore from knowing objective Truth.
Sensory perception and reasoning - even knowledge of Scripture - can only take you so far because you suffer from the observer problem. You must know the power of God, Who is Jesus Christ Himself.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. – Matthew 22:29 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. - I Corinthians 1:24
Your quest, by the way, is similar to Justin Martyr's whose journey took him to various Greek philosophies, the best knowledge of the day - peaking with Plato and ending with Jesus once he encountered Trypho the Jew. Perhaps your bird instincts will overcome the frog predisposition and you, too, will be given "ears to hear" or if you have chosen to ignore what you hear, you'll change your mind.
To God be the glory.