RE: In the Beginning - Open Discussion - (Atheist Account of trying faith)
One of the things we all do is see a world view that we like and immediately adopt it in a great leap of faith. After that, every new fact is viewed through that lens, and often rejected if it doesn't fit. Only if we encounter overwhelming evidence to the contrary will we allow ourselves to be dynamited out of a world view. Any world view.
That's why Christians and Atheists look at each other with disdain. Our world views are incompatible and misfit facts just bounce off.
But remember, we first chose our world views because that's what we liked.
After a long time we have a nice filter where all the people who like the idea of God being in charge have gravitated to one world view and all those who reject Him have gravitated to the other.
And that's why God does not provide absolute proof.
It would mess up His very clever filter for "separating the sheep from the goats," as He puts it.