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However, some authors just have to take a stab at it. Generally their logic fails miserably and their evidence is nothing more than a chain of circular references.

I'll be buying a copy of this latest attempt to prove the existence of a deity. I've already read so many of them that one more won't be too trying.

You seem to be reaching out, but I'll tell ya, you're going about this the wrong way. You say you're an atheist. An atheist isn't looking, because an atheist "knows". Suspending your disbelief long enough to take a leap of faith is an enormous leap, one you may feel too insurmountable to take. If you ever do take that leap, ask Him to open your eyes & ears.

If you ever do take that leap, ask Him to open your eyes & ears.

That's not a good tactic to take with a lot of atheists, saying "If only you give him a chance." A lot of us, like me, were in the church and had our eyes and ears open as you say. Been there, done that, not for me.

Suspending your disbelief long enough to take a leap of faith is an enormous leap, one you may feel too insurmountable to take. If you ever do take that leap, ask Him to open your eyes & ears.

I have tried this. So have most of the atheists I know. I am not an atheist so much because I deny the existance of God as much as I am not capable of believing in God given the information I have. Some people are capable of beliving things they want to believe but I can't do that. Right now, I am as incapable of believing in God as I am in beliving in leprechauns. I'm not saying this to be flip. Someday, we might find out that there were a race of little people with powers we don't understand and I will believe in them, and someday, I may be given what I consider to be proof or a reason to believe in God's existence. Until then, I will be an atheist. Not necessarily because I want to be, but because I am not capable of anything else.