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Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
(April 2, 2017 at 12:00 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(April 1, 2017 at 10:50 pm)masterofpuppets Wrote: it seems like YOU don't understand the point he's making. ...Gods are just nonsense. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong. ...Why are you correct when a Hindu is wrong? A Hindu can point out as many absurdities (probably more) in your religion than you can point out in his.

I did reply. Brina, and now you, seem not to have noticed. All major religions agree with respect to the god of classical theism as revealed by general revelation, which is all that matters for the fine-tuning argument. They do differ with respect to special revelation, but that is OFF-TOPIC.

Oops, I seem to have missed your response to Brian the first time I browsed through that section of the thread. My apologies.

You are correct in that the fine-tuning argument does not point to a specific god, but that's not the issue I was addressing just now. My point is that it doesn't make sense to assume a specific divine agency if the fine-tuning argument is sound (and it's not even necessary that the fine-tuner was a deity), because there is no basis to assume the existence of one god over another given that the evidence for all of them is equally poor. In that sense, the fine-tuning argument has little to do with proving any god due to the vagueness of its conclusion.
"Faith is the excuse people give when they have no evidence."
  - Matt Dillahunty.
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RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism? - by masterofpuppets - April 2, 2017 at 4:11 am

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