(August 4, 2017 at 1:53 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: An atheist's tendency in this situation; I have observed, is to deny, and claim the observer as mistaken, crazy or something similar (or if unable to deny, then well there must be a naturalistic cause (science will figure it out someday). Here too, I think that often, it may be better to just say I don't know. Not that there can't be reasons for these answers, but they are a claim that needs to be supported.
I agree with much of your post, but disagree with this. Firstly, atheists aren't robots who all share the same programming, and I know plenty who are dead-certain that UFOs are piloted by beings from other worlds, or that humans have mental powers such as ESP or PK or whatever.
Secondly, the fact is that mistakes of observation and forms of insanity which impart hallucinations are facts. They happen regularly, daily. The idea that those explanations are less likely than that of an all-powerful invisible guy in heaven is hogwash, and the rational mind knows this.
