Well for starters, "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". Oh wait, that's a satire based around the Illuminati. "Behold, A Pale Horse", "The Two Babylons", "Occult Theocracy", and "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail".
All of which seem to tie together, because a lot of the Illuminati based stories fall in line with the movies "The Da Vinci Code" (also a book) and "National Treasure".
Again, you really don't understand that there are people with arguments of all sorts of things. Belief that the heads of the government are actually reptiles (with proof), the belief that the U.S. government leaders sacrifice SOMETHING (possibly children) at Bohemian Grove according to the lunar cycle (with video proof), the belief that every event in the world is caused by the Illuminati (with proof), the belief that God is real and talks to people/performs miracles (with proof).
So you know what, I guess I can't dismiss your argument, because Reptile Humans, Bohemian Grove, the Illuminati, and God all exist due to statements from credible people who have seen/found the evidence of these things.
Well that's the great thing, we're not allowed in to test and carbon date the dinosaur bones, we just accept that they are real. So I give you this, that we could not prove it for ourselves. That is why there is a big debate by the theists who believe the earth is not millions of years old, which also goes into the theory of evolution.
The only problem with what you're saying is that they would have had to planted these bones hundreds of years ago in order to freak us out today. There are places where fossils are still turning up. Fossilization is a real thing and can be shown/proven.
Another thing you fail to mention is that the people you are trying to "discredit" using my logic are scientists. We can be scientists. If we go to school and get degrees, we can become scientists and study these things. The people in the "Illuminati" are either chosen to be, or are prominent government officials. Something that takes a lifetime to achieve. We cannot go up the ranks and prove it because none of us can suddenly become the leaders.
Actually not really, because if I was able to access a microscope with the capability of seeing an atom, I would be able to see that they exist. Not just that someone tells me that it exists, but there is physical evidence that I can look at it, observe it, state that it is there.