I was thinking over an argument that Atheists might have:
The world all around you is without God, he's not presently active, he's not in your face. Common sense logic would tell you that God doesn't exist. Why do you believe in something you can't see; it's very hard to prove!
But then I tried to extrapolate that idea. What is on the very surface of our perceptions? We don't see atoms, bio-mechanical organisms, Newtonian physics, and a boring scientific world. All around us we see a beautiful, Avatar-like world! We look at fauna and say, "Cool plant!" Common folk like Tennessee mountain people either grudgingly bear ultimate things like life and death, or take these perceptions as evidence of God. Why can't we be common folk? On the surface we humans are emotional, messed up people in need of a savior!
An Atheist might reply that 'we must see beyond our own illusions to the real world' or something like that, pointing to the scientifically describable world. However, all of that is unseen. No one has seen atoms. Apples drop, but we don't see F = Gm1m2/d^2 as they fall. But we can include the unseen, sure. God is unseen! And if they reject that for being 'non-physical', I would then resort to the unseen TSM (if you are unfamiliar with 'TSM', see 'Time, Space, Material, and Infinity' under the 'TSM' label).
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