An argument against God

[Neo-Scholastic]

Experience on AF has taught me that Premise 2 is false. There seems to be nothing at all that could persuade an ideological atheist.

Well, there's at least a kernel of truth to that, in the following sense: If some being manifested itself doing things which - to us - seemed magical and supernatural, the rational first hypotheses to me would be to suspect either that

• I had gone insane
  
• Some kind of advanced intelligence is playing tricks on us

Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking. People want a miracle or ask for a sign and then if by chance it happens they find a way to explain it away. That is the problem with relying on miracles.

Fortunately, there are two other routes by which one can come to knowledge of God: reasoning from common experience (think Aquinas) and personal revelation (gnosis).