Atheists still waiting for proof that God exists

[DetlefK]

148. You are overlooking something:

Believers are not trying to prove God or whether God has this or that attribute. (Well, some philosophers do, but most believers don't.) They have the point-of-view that proof is unnecessary/inappropriate and that God should be approached by faith.

I see this as a major crux: The question whether God exists cannot be separated from how you want to make that test.



The concept of "proving" things experimentally is actually very young: The concept that some experiment can decide whether a philosophical theory is correct or not is only about 300-400 years old.
But mankind's history with religion is at least 10,000 years old. For the vast majority of mankind's history, the mere thought of disproving religious explanations via experiments was considered idiotic.

10,000 years. That's a long time and lots of cultural imprints and memes.