You may not like this and it goes against what I said earlier, but these were my thoughts years before I saw this video and deGrasse will get it through quicker than I would and ever so much more eloquently.
Just the first minute alone is hard to argue against, but deGrasse has made errors in some claims he has put forward.......there's one in here also.
Did you find it?
As i suspected, the senses are some of the worst data taking devices that exist, except for what we see in the lab ofcourse if you dont see the irony in that.......
Evidence is evidence, personal evidence is also evidence. As i said i had a dream last night, i have the evidence but i cannot prove it to you that i dreamt of Port winning a flag last night, doesnt mean i didnt have it. He might be a brilliant scientist, but he fails when it comes to mysticism.
M-theory predicts that there are 11 dimensions of spacetime at the string level. This is not physically observable. Similarly, the higher subtle dimensions are not physically observable (at this juncture in technology). But it does not mean that they do not exist.
From Wiki: Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Given that atheists consider that the subtler realities are nothing but a figment of the mystic's brain chemistry, then that indeed fits in with the definition of belief. It may be even be the correct belief, but that's completely beside the point.
The primary senses cannot detect everything. For millenia we have spoken about atoms as being the smallest indivisble type of matter, only that has been whittled to death relatively recently.
I love the analogy of how big a 'string' is if it indeed exists as theoretical physicists proclaim, which is; if an atom was the Universe, a string would be as big as a tree.
What if there are subtler energies smaller than these...and then smaller...and then smaller again...vibrating at frequencies that we can't detect with our crude instruments and our crude five senses.
Where I am coming from, is that it may require investigation exclusive of our primary senses.(research on deep state meditation or samadhi) I may not be able to show you in a book, but I can show you how to experience it. We all need to become our own scientist!