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I, and every other atheist I've encountered, would be happy to be proven wrong with reliable evidence. Something like the book Contact's (spoilers) message in the digits of pi, perhaps.

"Evidence is Satan's doing" means no amount of evidence can ever change your mind.

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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'm quite comfortable with the scientific method's track record of discovery and utility, thanks.

Would you please stop? If you want to argue about Satan and the scientific method, I'm sure other internet forums would be happy to host that.

That's no rebuttal.

A belief too, or in your words a way of thinking about things that makes you comfortable.

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.

I'm an atheist that would love to read a journal article describing the discovery of evidence for the existence of God. Do you have a source?

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