Religion, Science, & Unfalsifiability

Recently an interlocutor of mine claimed that religious beliefs, unlike scientific beliefs, are unfalsifiable. But beliefs of these two sorts don’t differ in this way. There is evidence for and evidence against both types of beliefs. So both kinds are at least theoretically verifiable and falsifiable. Moreover, when believers persist in maintaining beliefs in either category in the face of counterevidence, they often do so because they have adequate grounds for those beliefs and insufficient reason to think the contrary evidence is decisive. In these cases, though the beliefs are practically unfalsified, it doesn’t follow that they are theoretically unfalsifiable. 

The Book of Mormon

I’m almost done reading the Book of Mormon. Is it “another testament of Jesus Christ”? I don’t think so. I’ve been listing reasons for my doubts: though it was allegedly composed by different people over hundreds of years, it has the same voice and style throughout; though most of the documents were purportedly written before Christ, they reflect the enlightenment ideals of democracy, liberty, and individual rights; though the gospel of Christ is hidden in the Old Testament, it is explicit in the Book of Mormon; and though it makes historical claims, there is no independent evidence they are true.