> There is no current evidence of his present existence, but to deny that he existed in his Grecian heyday we need to assume that there was no good evidence for his existence available to the ancient Greeks. We have no reason to make this assumption.
I would certainly be very surprised if the ancient Greeks had found a widely-used, accepted and accessible proof for the existence of (a) god, and no one of the classic philosophers even mentioned it in passing.
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> There is no current evidence of his present existence, but to deny that he existed in his Grecian heyday we need to assume that there was no good evidence for his existence available to the ancient Greeks. We have no reason to make this assumption.
I would certainly be very surprised if the ancient Greeks had found a widely-used, accepted and accessible proof for the existence of (a) god, and no one of the classic philosophers even mentioned it in passing.