List of god arguments.
I think there needs to be a list of this poor excuses for logic so I'm making one.
Pascal's Wager
There needs to be a first cause (Big Bang)
God is (this thing/feeling)
My holy book says so
My religion is old
A lot of people believe
Banana = scary
Watchmaker
Morals (godly do good/atheist do bad)
- Communist
- Hitler
- Hippies (this one was a shocker to me)
Low Probability of Life means there is a creator
I had a feeling
Prayer works
Faith is enough
If I repeat it, If I repeat it, If I repeat it, If I (SLAP)
Fallacies (yes this is the catch all)
Uh this is all I could think of at 7:30 in the morning with no sleep. Feel free to add to or give the real names to arguments. I plan on explaining and then ripping apart each one so if you want to do that go ahead. Real world examples would be good for this I think. Maybe like two or three for the each of the really common ones, but presented in a different way. I’ll probably search the net for those sites that try to prove god and pull stuff off of there to break down.
Edit: is there a way I can tab or do bullets? I could figure out a quick example
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I think someone beat you to
I think someone beat you to it:
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm
Just for the record, there
Just for the record, there are at least two apologists who frequent this site who use this argument:
ARGUMENT FROM EXHAUSTION (abridged)
(1) Do you agree with the utterly trivial proposition X?
(2) Atheist: of course.
(3) How about the slightly modified proposition X'?
(4) Atheist: Um, no, not really.
(5) Good. Since we agree, how about Y? Is that true?
(6) Atheist: No! And I didn't agree with X'!
(7) With the truths of these clearly established, surely you agree that Z is true as well?
( Atheist: No. So far I have only agreed with X! Where is this going, anyway?
(9) I'm glad we all agree.....
....
(37) So now we have used propositions X, X', Y, Y', Z, Z', P, P', Q and Q' to arrive at the obviously valid point R. Agreed?
(38) Atheist: Like I said, so far I've only agreed with X. Where is this going?
....
(81) So we now conclude from this that propositions L'', L''' and J'' are true. Agreed?
(82) I HAVEN'T AGREED WITH ANYTHING YOU'VE SAID SINCE X! WHERE IS THIS GOING?
....
(177) ...and it follows that proposition HRV, SHQ'' and BTU' are all obviously valid. Agreed?
(178) [Atheist either faints from overwork or leaves in disgust.]
(179) Therefore, God exists.
It's the old "If you leave the discussion first, I win" argument.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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