(July 19, 2022 at 11:25 am)Simon Moon Wrote: I am open to demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, reasoned argument, and valid and sound logic to support the existence of gods.
I think these are reasonable standards. They are standards held by very many people in our time, place, social class, and educational level.
It's good that you can state your standards of judgment. If someone disagreed with these standards, I hope they could explain why. I'm sure you could defend them properly, and have a genuine good-faith conversation.
Unfortunately there are atheists who pretend that they have no such standards, and their atheism is just some sort of pure nothingness. (This might be true of atheists who had never heard religious claims and never given any thought to the issue at all. If they were raised by wolves or something.) Like you, they hold strongly to certain epistemological and metaphysical principles, but they don't seem to recognize that their conclusions are based on principles.
