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Originally Posted by shahrad
Look at this: You go back in time 4000 years before Chr. You tell people that electrons exist, they only should read this books and they will get it. They will say I don't need any books to explain why we don't have a belief in invisible men in robes living in the clouds.
What I want to say is that those people have been very intelligent people and we should assume that they would not have wasted their time for atheistic ideas, if the atheistic ideas were so easy to prove like you assume.
The difference is that we understand more about the world including how things happen that we used to blame on the gods we created to explain things we didn't understand.
Once again, one does not have to prove atheistic ideas since athiesm only means that one doesn't have a belief in god. Its not a proof nor does it pretend to be.
The difference with electrons is that they were theorized and then they have been found in experiments. They behave in ways we would expect and can measure.
most people who believe in god(s) rely on faith and imagination. It helps to have less education, because the more you learn about the world and understand it, the less likely you are to believe in gods. Why do you suppose that is? (rhetorical question, by the way)
Do you need to read a few volumes by philosophers to figure out that unicorns, dragons and werewolves don't exist? Of course not. For the same reason we can reasonably conclude that there is no god(s), at least not as described by most religious texts.