"Don't presume that just because someone rolls their eyes and points out the fallacies in certain goofy "evidence for God" arguments, that they're an atheist."
I didn't presume anything, I'm talking about the ones who claim atheism.
"Has it ever occurred to you that they might be open-minded enough to look into a thread like this to see whether they might have overlooked something that might challenge their atheism and require them to change their position?"
LOL if only
" Plus, of course, threads with titles like these often contain a lot of atheist bashing (because, you know, they must be real fools"
Theres more atheist bashing going on in Christian churches than on FR.
if they don't fall to their knees in the face of fallacious arguments and weak "evidence" of God like this), so I imagine a number of them would come by to defend their beleaguered group."
This kind of goes back to your "open minded" comment. I would hazard to guess they are atheists because, to them, ALL evidence since the beginning of time is "fallacious arguments and weak evidence of God.
I'm just one of the "naive audience", as one egotistical and superior atheist says, but I think some, not all, but some atheists join these threads hoping to steal a soul from God, but thats just my humble opinion.
What a wacky idea.
There is no evidence for a "soul". There is no evidence any god. (Rain gods excepted.)
The notion of a "soul" is merely a theological construct and abstraction. It does not meet the smell test. There is zero evidence.