Well then, as you know, there are more than a few verses and phrases which describe circumstances and events that were just not physically or technologically possible during previous generations.
Curiously, I missed that part. A detailed discussion of that would be for another thread, but let me relate it to this thread's topic.
There are lots of extremely vague predictions which could be interepreted this way or that. I don't think many of us would be convinced by any sort of prophecy that had to be explained in too much detail. If a major world leader demanded that we all get tattoos of "666" on our foreheads, and no one was allowed to purchase goods unless he had a tattoo, we would probably take notice. However, if VISA started using 18 digit account numbers arranged in three groups of six, we probably wouldn't really think the prophecy had been fulfilled.
Likewise, if a humanoid, winged, figure, blowing a real, honest to goodness, trumpet flew overhead, and the trumpet blast that sounded very trumpet-like was heard all over the world, I would probably take notice and question my non-belief. However, if a simultaneous worldwide test of the next generation of emergency broadcast sytem were conducted, I wouldn't say that was close enough to the biblical description to say that the prophecy was fulfilled, although certain scholars of Bible prophecy have said that Gabriel's trumpet would be "blown" in just such a manner, and that the availability of worldwide broadcasting was a fulfillment of prophecy. No, I'm just not seeing it. It's not enough to make me give up my atheism.
Heck, I would even seriously question my beliefs if a million Americans suddenly disappeared without a trace, especially if fundamentalist Christians were disproportionately represented among the missing, but somehow, I don't expect that to happen. However, if it did, I wouldn't expect it to happen as depicted in pop Christian culture, in which a million or more people vanish without a trace, including from moving vehicles, leaving behind piles of clothes, but those remaining behind made up some weird explanation and didn't notice the similarity to the predictions of the prophetic interpretations.
(Curiously, in pop culture depictions, piles of clothes are sometimes left behind after the rapture. Examination of the video representations of the aftereffects of the rapture might lead one to conclude that fundamentalist Christian women rarely if ever wear underwear. I've never seen a pair of panties in the clothing piles. Do fundie mothers warn their daughters to always wear clean underwear, because you never know if someone might see them if they are left behind after the rapture?)
No, I think in the face of such overwhelming evidence, even the most hardened atheists would actually change their views, if not to Christianity, at least away from our hard core materialist philosophies, and quite a few, recognizing not only the supernatural element of the events, but its similarity to Christian prophecy, would conclude that Christians were right and they ought to get on board the train while they still had the chance. It's a purely evidence based position, as opposed to the thread to which the OP referred, which was a statement by someone who said he couldn't accept atheism because he just didn't like some aspect of it. I think most of us don't like some aspect of Christianity, but given evidence of its correctness, might reconsider.
