Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

That contrasts sharply with the completely closed minded attitudes that religious people and people who are adherents of various pop philosophies maintain. Those people who start out with a premise based on no evidence, with no rigorous research, peer review of challenges to the dogma allowed and they won't listen to any reason or be willing change their minds for any reason. In summation, it's easy to convince an atheist that god or the Loch Ness monster or anything else you want to claim else exists. Prove it with evidence. The opposite- getting those with faith to change their opinion about anything- simply cannot be accomplished- and that's the fatal flaw in all faith based systems of belief.