When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?

[Simon Moon]

One of the standard mantras atheists are taught to say is "I'm an atheist because I have seen no evidence for God."

This is not a convincing reason to be an atheist. Why?

Is it a convincing reason to disbelieve in: Bigfoot, alien abductions, ancient aliens, etc?

It's possible for someone to be too blind or too ignorant to see or understand the evidence. Just like a toddler might say "I see no evidence of the validity of Quantum Mechanics" or a blind woman might say "I see no evidence of the existence of colors" the problem might be with the person and not the evidence.

Yes, you are completely blind and ignorant to see the evidence for aliens abductions.

Here's the thing, a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, an atheist, a Buddhist, etc, can all study QM, and do the same experiments and get the same results. The same Muslim, Christian, Jew, atheist, and Buddhist can look at the evidence you claim for the existence for god, and not get the same results. Therefore, your analogy, like every other one of your arguments, fails.

Clearly, if the atheist wants the public to believe that there is no evidence, they have to be able to respond meaningfully to purported examples of theistic evidence.

We have. You are just too simple minded to understand why your idea of evidence, is drastically insufficient. 

Atheists here, for the most part are not competent enough to do this. 

And hence, when someone says they are an atheist because they have seen no evidence, the best response seems to be to send them to an optometrist.

No, the best thing is to send the theist to basic logic courses, and teach them what actually constitutes good evidence for existential claims.