In many of the holy books or ancient fables, god had no compunction about showing him/herself to those who showed no interest or even were antagonistic. Even people who had no expectations, realistic or otherwise. But now... nothing. And all of the hand-waving and excuse-making and rules-changing is insufficient to cover for such a marked (and very convenient) difference.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould