Since we're sharing here, let me just counter that I don't see how a rational person can be a theist. But since some rational people are theists, I accept they manage to reconcile theism and reason, at least to their own satisfaction.
In any case I'm an atheist, and most of the time I feel intellectually fulfilled. So one of us is deluded.
It's a touchy subject. The frank position of Christianity is that such people are in denial of ultimate Reality (God). Some atheists return the complement to Christianity in mirror image, though positing a reality smaller than God.
Christianity replies once more by pointing to a moral problem. Who to obey and how? Yet God answers that question TOO well... a moral code we observe that our best efforts fall woefully short of, coupled with a hair trigger of blame and the displeasure of an Infinite being. So, many shy away. I did. Until I saw salvation enter the picture. One can't truly be forgiven until one pleads guilty.
HA! (quoting Chris Matthews). Seems right to me. :^)
So do you want to qualify evidence such that we might have an argument precisely about this matter??? How would we even begin to proceed???
(I shall be guided by you, should you wish to go further. Unless I see you taking me over a cliff, in which case I might protest.)
Good to see you, RWP. Thanks for writing!
Funny, how many of their arguments are based on both ignorance and a lack of vision.