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People aren't atheist because they have no personal experience proving the existence of a god.
Atheism isn't a belief system.
The lack of evidence for a god is why atheists exist.
Personal experience and evidence are two different things.
Atheism is a belief system. It is the belief that there is no deity.
The scientific approach is agnosticism. In the absence of evidence, or what one considers evidence, the scientific answer is "i don't know".
And a lot of what we consider to be scientifically proven, are theories, which are subject to constant change. The best example probably being atomic models and how rapidly they developed in the early 20th century. However that Bohrs atom model of circular movement of electrons around the atoms core was succeeded by more detailed models and the circles being disproved, doesn't mean Bohr was any less of a scientist or evidence based researcher.
Meanwhile except for very few physics experts we all just accept that orbitals are the best approximation we have right now, because we read it in some book.
Atheism is the lack of belief in a deity. It's not a belief that one doesn't exist.
There's a distinction there. You can look that up. You will find you are mistaken.
P.s.i find your willingness to trivalise scientific research and discovery as "some book" intollerable.
In the context of my original point, the difference between a scientific theory and some political monstrosity not believing something because they have no personal experience of the subject is incredibly large.
Don't try to legitimise that clown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
Aside from that, whether you accept and believe scientific discoveries remains a subjective choice. In social sciences like history or economics it often happens that two contradictory views are equally legitimate. And again the look in the past is valuable. Many scientists were ridiculed, sometimes even persecuted for their ideas to be outside the consensus of their time.
Assuming that what you consider the accepted truth because it is the accepted opinion of our day and age could proof equally fallible like the ancient Greeks and Romans ridiculing the now accepted germ theory, for which we have ample evidence thanks to the development of microscopes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease#Greece_and_Rome
So your original ridicule is perfectly viable. It just not only applies to the statements of Tucker Carlson, who i probably despise equally as you do.
I have loved ones that I very much care for that I have to do these mental dances with. Certain groups or cultures of people may have a bias towards only looking at scientific evidence that promotes their hypothesis, well established institutions can sometimes be "stuck in a rut" but I would include people like graham hancock in that group. Science is a beautiful thing though, new data and experiments doesn't care what your belief structure is. Your germ theory is a beautiful example where thought was put into a hypothesis and was slowly formed over time with new evidence. Religious and spiritual aspects do not require this with belief. What was the last study done by a religious scholar that a deity exists? What was the last religious text that was changed due to discoveries or experiments that were done?
It's important to realize that scientific study is a rigorous system and not everyone follows it to the best of their ability. Slamming a label on like "whether you accept and believe scientific discoveries remains a subjective choice" is not a valid statement.
The very fact that you're using subjective choice to look at scientific data means you're not actually following the scientific method (explains how something goes from hypothesis-theory-law). It's ok to have a hypothesis that's different from mainstream, it's not ok to declare being subjugated because you aren't following the method to show your data and claiming it must be a law.
If you're going to dance around the science/spiritual circles you need to have proper respect for both parties when communicating directly (if you want everyone to understand what you're talking about). One example is "Energy", means two very different things when talking to an electrical engineer or a new age "star child". The distinction needs to be made for sound scientific communication that doesn't impede someones belief.
I highly suggest checking out "The Hidden Story That Defines Our Modern Era" from Like Stories of Old. This is a prime example of how you can bind modern communication and stepping into the religious/belief structures of our history while maintaining respect for everyone.