Evidence

[Ryantology]

Don't you think if they ever had enough brains to wrap around concept and implications of "There is no evidence", they would have stopped being theists by this point in the 21st century?

Come on, we both know evolution doesn't work that way. A theist doesn't become an atheist just like that. There have to be intermediary stages. First they would begin to show signs of uncertainty. Then they might try other alternative explanations before finally they threw their arms in the air and admitted they just don't know, thus becoming agnostic. At that point, they would either say "screw it" I'm channeling God somehow or other, I'm sticking to belief. Or else they'd try to keep channeling God but the channel would go dead and they'd be on their own. Eventually they might decide they'd been mistaken. But that is how evolution works, many small steps.

It's true. Once was, I was a Christian who used to chase my own tail trying to account for all of the discrepancies of my faith when some atheist would call attention to them. Truth be told, I was at least as much convinced by seeing other Christians repeatedly fail to justify their beliefs than in my own inadequacy to do the same. It was different when I could see my beliefs being attacked and nobody else was any better than I was at defending them.

That's why I'll still give Drich or Lion the time of day. I know I can't change their minds--you can't plant seeds in concrete--but any semi-reasonable theists who witness them flail about like beached goldfish, or deliver meaningless packing peanut answers such as the first response in this thread, may experience the same epiphany I did. It does take time, though.