(December 15, 2015 at 4:16 pm)Delicate Wrote: 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?
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.
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.
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 evidence. No scientific proof of any kind. No way to know which one of the thousands of human gods to follow, or if any one of them ever existed. And now, when it would be SO EASY for any deity to absolutely prove their existence to the entire planet, instead of relying on the ravings of power-hungry, money-hungry preachers, . . . nothing. God could stop ISIL with a word. Maybe Allah is the real one? Reasonable study of religious writings makes it pretty clear that all gods were created by man. When we have proof - - not just fantasies and old myths, but scientific proof, such as a deity showing up and saying "hi", I will change my mind.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
