> It is difficult to imagine. A large part of it would have to be evidence of a elaborate conspiracy, and if I began to ever uncover such a thing I'd probably start by questioning my sanity.

Heh, you aren't the only one. I used to wonder how it could possibly happen that so many theists would be wrong about all these miracles and stuff.

You immediately jumped to asserting your correctness, as if this is the only possible axis around which anything can rotate. I know you believe and your belief system has a definition of what counts and does not that is designed by the circumstances of its inception to make the assertion of any other symbol sets to analyze the world as invalid and undeserving of consideration. But I am not arguing about this, but rather the Right to Power derived from the nature of this argumentation is itself a tiresome way to engage about the world and what there is to find in it.

I, unfortunately, have had the entirely opposite experience. All the atheists I've talked with discount any evidence brought forward by scientists, or articles I have read in journals. The ones I have met are closed-minded.