(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."The Bible mentions unicorns but no one has ever seen any in real life. But suppose the Bible had mentioned things like airplanes, cars, radios, telephones, televisions, nuclear bombs, microwave ovens. Sure, people would have been clueless for centuries about what those things are but it would have gone a long way to convince current people that the fairy tale isn't BS.
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.
The Book of Mormon tried to pull off a scam when old Joe included modern technology in his fictional story that supposed happened 1,800 years before he wrote it. But if the Bible or the Koran had included such things centuries before they were invented it would have been impressive evidence. But if Jesus was still wiggling on the cross after 2,000 years I doubt if there would be any skeptics at all. Too bad Joseph of Arimathea chowed down on the corpse.
