@Ricardo

When, and if, that time ever comes, that will be the time to believe it. Not a second before.

@Ricardo: RE: Theist Claims... "Theists also claim..."

1. There is a magic man living beyond time and space that has a magic plan that will change his plan when you pray to him because he is in all things and loves you.

2, You can accept their claim and have a personal loving relationship with this god beyond the stars who is also personal and present but not detectable in any way or you can be tortured for all eternity in the pits of a fiery lake for your disbelief. The choice is yours.

3. You are personally responsible for the torturous death of a little Jewish rabbi who wondered about the cities of ancient Nazareth, Galilee, and Judea spitting in people's eyes to cure blindness, walking on water, feeding people bread and fish, and saying stupid shit like "Think not of tomorrow." to get people to abandon their families and livelihoods and follow him.

4. That a book called the "Bible" is historically accurate even thought it talks about a global flood that never happened and still covered the entire earth with water so a magic boat, large enough to carry two of every animal on the planet, could be built by 8 people over 55 to 75 years. It's a really good thing Noah, the boat builder, lived to be 500 years old and not just 40 like his contemporaries, or building this boat would have really taken up a significant part of his life.

5. The bible is historically accurate because this god thing from #1, tortured a bunch of Egyptians, with fire from the sky, plagues, and killing their first born sons, until a group of non-existent Jewish slaves were released from their bondage. Upon their release, they followed a non-existent idiot named Moses who got lost in a desert, that would have only taken a week to cross, for 40 years. Nevertheless; everyone is happy because the Moses guy leads them to the promised land just before the God thing kills him.

* I HATE TO BE CRASS; HOWEVER, I REALLY DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING A CHRISTIAN WOULD SAY REGARDING THE HADRON COLLIDER.

@Ricardo

You will learn a lot yourself just by observing, and the next time they start to ask dumb questions, you will have more ammunition than you have now.

@Ricardo: The scientific method is not the only sure way to acquire knowledge. It is most certainly the best way we know of to test knowledge. Knowledge (what you believe to be true) can be amazingly faulty or justified true knowledge, all depending on how you "Justify" it. (What are the facts and evidence support the knowledge claim?) Knowledge itself is not just suddenly magically true.

What science does is set up ways to test knowledge. It takes the silly ideas out of your brain, designs tests, and then determines the validity of the silly idea. It the idea demonstrates a degree of reliability some conclusions can be made, future tests can be designed to focus a bit more, and then one day, if we are lucky, we will know something new. Science in all its forms is a method of inquiry that leads us to facts that are demonstrable, repeatable, and predictive of future events.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND NON-EXISTENCE OF GOD:
No. There would be no relationship because something that is non-existent would not have any impact on the world at all. Science does not run about proving things are non-existent. Why would anyone do that. You could drive yourself insane running around trying to prove every inane assertion ever made was not real. THIS BRINGS US TO THE BURDEN OF PROOF.

If you want to assert something is real, you have the burden of proof to do so. If you have a new theory, a position, or some research findings, you must prove your assertions are valid with facts and evidence. Only then can science take a look at what you have gathered and how you have put things together. A God that has no effect at all on the world is completely beyond the bounds of scientific investigation. A personal god that responds to prayer and performs miracles, on the other hand, is completely examinable. That is how we know Miracles do not happen and prayer is useless. These events have been studied.

@Ricardo: You keep asking the same questions over and over. "Atheists" do not believe in God or gods. They can believe in all sorts of other crap, They can believe in crystal magic, chakras, flat earth, ki / chi, Nirvana, Karma, or anything else. This means they can not all be empiricists, neither can they all be rational.
Empiricism and rationalism are personal values that many atheists hold; however, I suspect these values are more common among the most outspoken among us.

I know for a fact that when atheists appear on the site who are not rational and do not rely on empiricism, they are challenged with the same vigor as the theists. They are asked over and over why they would choose to believe what they believe without evidence.