Well, atheism isn't new, but the world has changed and so has our understanding of it. In fact, some of Bacon's lines of argument against atheism have been rendered invalid by discoveries made since.
Two centuries ago, I would have been Christian for my whole life (even beyond the fact that I wouldn't have survived to my current age). So in a sense, there is a time-linked aspect to atheism...dogmatic and philosophic atheism has become supplemented by evidentiary atheism.
Why? How about two and a half centuries ago in time of Voltaire and Hume? Maybe two centuries ago people did become a little more enlightened with the atheist depravations of the atheistic French Revolution so apparent to the memory of most but then the depravations of atheistic Communism should be in yours.
The Bible actually looks more reliable today than then. Secular scholarship shows the writing to be reliable. The universe has been shown to have a beginning and end (unlike the learned consensus circa 1807) and life can't spontaneously generate.
And the Jews once again rule Israel.