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Feb 11, 2007 15:45

  1. ARGUMENT FROM INCOMPLETE DEVASTATION
    (1) A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew.
    (2) But one child survived with only third-degree burns.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  2. ARGUMENT FROM POSSIBLE WORLDS
    (1) If things had been different, then things would be different.
    (2) That would be bad.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  3. ARGUMENT FROM SHEER WILL
    (1) I DO believe in God!  I DO believe in God!  I do I do I do I DO believe in God!
    (2) Therefore, God exists.

  4. ARGUMENT FROM NONBELIEF
    (1) The majority of the world's population are nonbelievers in Christianity.
    (2) This is just what Satan intended.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  5. ARGUMENT FROM POST-DEATH EXPERIENCE
    (1) Person X died an Atheist.
    (2) He now realizes his mistake.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  6. ARGUMENT FROM EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL
    (1) God loves you.
    (2) How could you be so heartless to not believe in him?
    (3) Therefore, God exists.
  7. ARGUMENT FROM FEELING IN MY BONES, BY C. S. LEWIS, a.k.a. FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT (VII)
    (1) "I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself."
    (2) This universe needs an explanation.
    (3) The explanation must be God, because I can't think of anything else.
    (4) Therefore, God exists.
  8. ARGUMENT FROM SACRIFICIAL BLACKMAIL
    (1) Jesus died for your sins.
    (2) Therefore, God exists.

  9. ARGUMENT FROM INCOHERENT BABBLE
    (1) See that person spazzing on the church floor babbling incoherently?
    (2) That's how infinite wisdom reveals itself.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  10. OPRAH'S ARGUMENT (I)
    (1) The human spirit exists.
    (2) Therefore, God exists.
  11. ARGUMENT FROM CROCKERY
    (1) Pots don't go around giving orders to the potter.
    (2) Therefore, God exists.
  12. ARGUMENT FROM INFINITE REGRESS, a.k.a. FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT (II)
    (1) Ask Atheists what caused the Big Bang.
    (2) Regardless of their answer, ask how they know this.
    (3) Continue process until the Atheist admits he doesn't know the answer to one of your questions.
    (4) You win!
    (5) Therefore, God exists.
  13. ARGUMENT FROM LONELINESS
    (1) Christians say that Jesus is their best friend.
    (2) I'm lonely, and I want a best friend.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.
  14. ARGUMENT FROM CREATIVE INTERPRETATION
    (1) God is:
        (a) The feeling you have when you look at a newborn baby.
        (b) The love of a mother for her child.
        (c) That little still voice in your heart.
        (d) Humankind's potential to overcome their difficulties.
        (e) How I feel when I look at a sunset.
        (f) The taste of ice cream on a hot day.
    (2) Therefore, God exists.

  15. ARGUMENT FROM INSECURITY
    (1) We have gone to absolutely berserk lengths to establish that Atheists are laughable morons.
    (1.5) Actually, we did so in the hopes of curing our own insecurities about theism - but there's no chance in hell we'll ever admit that.
    (2) Therefore, Atheists are laughable morons.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.
  16. ARGUMENT FROM YOU ARE ALWAYS LOVED
    (1) You are always loved.
    (2) God invented love.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  17. ARGUMENT FROM GOD WILL PROVIDE
    (1) I don't know what I'm going to do with my life.
    (2) But something always happens to sustain me.  My parents support me, I find a job, etc.  God provides!
    (3) No, it's NOT the actions of the humans themselves!  How could you think that?"
    (4) Therefore, God exists.
  18. ARGUMENT FROM SUPERIORITY
    (1) If God does not exist, then I am an inferior being, since I am not "special" in a cosmic sense.
    (2) But I am superior because I am a Christian.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.
  19. ARGUMENT FROM LACK OF DISPROOF
    (1) You can't prove God doesn't exist!
    (2) Therefore, God exists.

  20. ARGUMENT FROM ANECDOTAL EXPERIENCE (I)
    (1) I once experienced something I can't explain.
    (2) [Atheists offer several possible, natural explanations.]
    (3) You're just guessing!  I was there.
    (4) Therefore, God exists.

  21. ARGUMENT FROM ANECDOTAL EXPERIENCE (II)
    (1) I have experienced feelings of God's presence in my mind.
    (2) Therefore, God exists.
  22. ARGUMENT FROM TEEN CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT
    (1) God is so totally awesome, dude, and if you would pretend that Creed and POD were good bands, you would realize that.
    (2) Also, our Youth Group leader Skip once, like, cured a broken leg using only the power of the almighty Lord.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

  23. ARGUMENT FROM SPEAKING IN TONGUES
    (1) My friend here, once started spontaneously speaking some jibberish that sounded to me kind of like Russian.
    (2) But neither he nor I know anything about Russian.
    (3) The only explanation is God.
    (4) Therefore, God exists.

  24. ARGUMENT FROM EUROPEAN HISTORY
    (1) Many prominent thinkers in pre-modern Europe believed in God.
    (2) Let’s just forget about the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
    (3) Therefore, God exists.

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