If theists understood "evidence"

[Alan V]

A group of four Jehovah's Witnesses knocked at my door a couple of months ago. When I asked them what evidence they had for God's existence, one of them made a sweeping gesture toward the woods in back of my house, saying, "There's your evidence right there!"

"No," I replied, "that's only evidence that I own several acres of wooded property. Evolution is a perfectly adequate explanation of how all those trees and woodland creatures got there."

"What is your religion?" their leader asked.

"I have no religion or god," I replied. "I'm an atheist."

They all shrugged their shoulders and left. Intellectual cowards!

You exhausted their arguments quickly, which means they had no intellectual wherewithal to fall back on.  That's the problem with arguing with people who are only trained to certain beliefs.

But perhaps you will make them think about it later.

That reminds me.  I attended a barbeque with some relatives on Saturday.  One 53-year-old man who had visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky a few weeks ago on vacation was discussing with a 70-year-old woman how dinosaurs fit into Biblical accounts, and how the Genesis story of the first people made sense.  I could only think that those two were largely deprived intellectually.  They couldn't simply recognize the Genesis stories as mythology.  And the woman concluded that the Bible was intended to make people think!