Letters to the Editor
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To me, the most impressive evidence
for the existence of god is the countless millions of people over the centuries who have sought and found god through prayer, meditation, etc. Impressive too is the remarkable similarity in their experiences of god which exist across cultures, geography and time. It's admittedly not absolute proof, but it's certainly evidence. And it's evidence I've never heard an atheist address.
What is also interesting is how few atheists pray. To me, if you do not engage in some form of disciplined prayer or meditation, you cannot call yourself an atheist. We have many sources from many cultures and traditions which tell us that the way to god (or whatever your culture or discipline calls it) is through prayer or meditation. And yet people who call themselves atheists routinely refuse to do the one thing that can bring them the experience of god. That they then call themselves scientists is a feat of intellectual dexterity far beyond my poor powers. One thing scientists do not do is purposely shield themselves from data.
Few people disdain organized religion more than I do, but the depredations of religions have little or nothing to do with the existence of god or of our human ability to seek and find transcendence.