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If I told an atheist, "prove to me the sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth without consulting a scientific textbook" you wouldn't be able to do it.
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The flaw in this logic is that it is not acknowledging that people have different levels of logic.
If you were to as me, an atheist, to prove that the sun is 93 million miles away from the earth, I could not do it without citing past scientific studies. Why? Because I am a layman in that area of knowledge.
But I can guarantee you that my boss, also an atheist, who has his Doctorate in Astronomy, could prove it if he had access to the proper instruments.
Just because a lay person with no knowledge of a topic can't prove something is hardly proof that such knowledge does not exist.
The difference between a scientist consulting a scientific text and a theist consulting a bible is that the scientific text has been tested, and will continue to be tested. As a scientific text it has to stand up to this testing or be considered invalid.
The problem with the various bibles is that it is untestable. That's why it is accepted as a matter of faith.