Best Theistic Arguments

[KevinM1]

I wanted to say something else on the subject of "faith".

I can have faith in a person, based on my past experiences with them. If they've always shown they know what they are doing in some regard, I'll have faith in them that they'll continue to be good at that particular thing. If, however, I witness them fouling it up, causing chaos and getting awful results, I would have no faith in them in the future.

Faith has different meanings in different contexts.

I have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow. It's due to several factors, including:

A clear, consistent track record of the sun rising.
My understanding of the composition of the sun, and how its mass affects gravity.
My understanding of the earth, and how it rotates on its axis.

Similarly, my faith in certain people is due to:

What I've learned about their character.
Their past actions.
Etc.

An atheist's faith is really a comment on probability. Because of a combination of knowledge and past experiences with verifiable phenomena (it's uncontroversial to state that the sun, the earth, my family and friends all exist), we extrapolate what is likely to happen in the future. It's wholly different than religious faith, which isn't substantially different than wish-casting in the face of personal incredulity.