At a foundational level, the atheist denies the existence of deity based on the idea that because proof cannot be given for the existence of deity, they cannot exist. But they are confusing categories. They want a tangible, physical, logical proof for something that is not in those categories. To use an illustration, they want to know the color of sound. As a side note, it seems that many of them don't want answers, they just want to argue.
For a time I made the error of taking this stripe of atheist at face value, and bought into their façade of rational and dispassionate logic - offered the very evidence they demanded, via the multi-disciplinary field of Christian apologetics, and soon found that when they got what they asked for, they would invariably move the goalposts and engage in all manner of evasion, equivocation, and other forms of intellectual dishonesty. Have since learned to first gauge the character of the person I would engage with before tripping over myself to toss pearls before swine or give what is holy to the dogs.
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