(November 20, 2016 at 12:37 pm)The Joker Wrote:(November 20, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Is that really a common argument, though? I'm a lifelong atheist and the closest I've ever heard or used is "I don't believe these claims - convince me that your god did it".
Again, I appreciate your point, but I am having trouble accepting that common argument from atheists, when getting deep into the cosmological argument "It doesn't mean God did it, so I lack belief in God".
"I hear what you're saying, but I'm going to ignore it and go on with my strawman."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'