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I say that atheists are always open to proof. They're always interested in fantastic things. Because they don't exist, wouldn't it be wild to see? Atheists are not fanatical. The semantics nazis are gonna drill me on this one, but I think atheists are just agnostics who have decided to live their life on one side of the line while they passively wait for something to come along to bump them off of their path - confident, though, that it will never happen.
As an atheist myself, I'm more than willing to hear someone else's case, but the statements I make about religion are based off of observation. Everything I've seen in my life can be explained without the use of god. Some people like to complicate the matter by insisting he exists. I can explain an occurrence in simple logical terms, meanwhile others dramatize it with religion.
A: Show me something I can't explain.
R: How did the universe come to be?
A: There are a lot of ideas, but its too early to say for sure.
R: The universe, in its greatness and mystery, was created by God.
A: Why do you have to jump to that conclusion? We don't even know half the facts yet.
R: If you have to wait for the facts, it shows that you have no faith.
A: In the past, people have used that same reasoning to justify things that we can now attribute to science and physics. I'd say its worth the wait.
R: God created science and physics.
A: See, now you're letting god take credit for something that was deemed unrighteous in the past. This is like a court case where the witness keeps changing his testimony.
The more you try to justify it, the more obvious it becomes.
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