Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?

[Pat Mustard]

Everyone has an intuitive belief in fairness and yet there is no evidence supporting that belief? Is there anyone willing to say that people are unjustified and/or irrational for believing in fairness?

So the fact that humanity evolved as a social species is proof of god? Pull the other one Wooters, it's got bells on.

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When it comes to "James Reference" - unlike the infamous Testimonium Flavianum passage it seems that this is indeed Josephus writing about some James, but then it goes against books of "Church History" the so called "Historia Ecclesiastica" because writers of those books agree James was stumbled on alone by an angry mob that seized him in the street, threw him off the temple roof and stoned him.

The James passage literally states that it Josephus is talking about "James, the brother of Jesus Damnaeus" meaning that it in no way references the biblical Yeshua. It'd be like using a passage in the Connacht Tribune stating "Hauley, the brother of James" to make out that LeBron James has a long lost Irish brother named Michael.

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1. No, it really doesn't. Christians claim these events were supernatural (not-natural) in cause. Since the supernatural cannot be examined by science (by definition), there is no point in thinking it has any bearing on reality.

Fixed your post. If we cannot observe a phenomenon, if we cannot test it, if we cannot evaluate it, if we cannot compare it to something we know exists, then why the fuck should we consider it real?

If something is real it is natural, if something is discovered it is natural. If something is supernatural, it is not real.